Do you call your parents by their real names instead of mom and dad?
I am the eldest sibling in my house. (Eldest even amongst my first cousins, and the only child of my parents)When I was born, everyone in the house used to call each other by their names. My aunt called my mother by her name, my mother called my father by his name, my uncle called my father by his name, and so on. They called my grandmother as “mummy” and grandfather as “pappa”.As a child would, i took up the same lingo. Infact, when i was in my preschool and the topic of “Family” came up, I was confused as to who was related to me and how?? I had to actually sit with my whole family to paste photos on the family tree.Somehow, it just feels weird to call my mother as “mummy” as it is the way i call my grandmother and i have been calling her by her name since i was a kid. I respect her from the bottom of my heart. She knows. Infact when i try to call her “maa” infront of other people who nag “Respect your elders”, she tells me “Its okay”I used to avoid caling my father anything. Whenever talking to him, I would start with “Listen…” and to call him, I would shout “Listen to meee!!” and he would look around. Over the years, I have started calling him “pappa” and he seems quite happy about it.I can go on about a number of my family members who are elder to me and i call them by their names. They all know that I respect them, and would rather prefer me calling them by their real names, because thats how it has been with us, since years..
My friend committed suicide?
First of all im very sorry this happened to you. I have also lost a brother and cousin to suicide and trust me it was very tough. Right now the best thing to do is keep yourself busy which is what i learnt in counselling. She told me that keeping yourself busy and setting goals will make you feel more better about yourself and not forget about the person but be able to think in a whole positive way. Another way to help is to keep a personal journal and write your everyday thoughts that are built up inside of you because its never good to hold back all the guilt and pain and sometimes no one wants to say it to someone so it's always best to write in on paper which is what i did and wrote up alot of poems and songs that helped me release my pain. You could even consider counselling which i did for 2 years after my brother died then suddenly my cousin did the same thing but i didnt have to go again because i learnt alot of things. Counselling can be very helpful because they give you many ideas and sometimes its nice to talk to a stranger about how your feeling instead of friends or families.
My dad called me a...?
My family was outside today and my sister was showering in our outdoor shower. She left her towel outside so I went and got it for her. I was holding it under the door and I dropped it. My dad started yelling at me then. He said "Renee, why can't you just hold it for her? Quit being an idiot for once." And then my mom gave him a "stop that" look. Then he yelled at her. He said that he wanted me to "Stop being such an a**hole." This isn't the first time he's called me mean names. It's happened before. I'm a great student and I have big dreams for the future, but he thinks I'm a worthless failure. I cried for a half hour in the bathroom by myself because it hurts me to know that all I am to him is an a**hole that takes up space and money. How do I get my dad to stop calling me names? What should I respond when he does? I'm a 14 year old girl.
Just wondering, why do we call our parents mom and dad rather than their real names?
I put it down to two things. Respect and affection.In the UK we say ‘mum’ rather than ‘mom’ but that aside I think that these are more than anything, affectionate terms. If my children called me by name then in some way that would seem cold as names are used is less close relationships. Even with partners it is common to have a ‘pet’ name as using the given name somehow seems colder. I never call my wife by her name (unless I am angry with her).I like being called ‘dad’ as in some way that means my children are showing both affection and respect. If they were to call me by my first name then it would seem to me to be putting our relationship on the same basis as any two other humans and it is more than that.This is a convention that I would be very sad to see lost. First name terms for children to parents seems to me to be a slightly hippy convention that is losing something about the status of the relationship.
I dreamt of my dead mother and she held out her hand and I woke up just as I was going to take it, does this mean I was going to die?
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Spanked for drinking?
I had the opportunity to steal my Dad's keys to get to the alcohol cabinet. When I got a hold of the key I just made copies of it. So when I was alone I would take sips of alcohol. When my dad found out he was furious. He told me the dangers of drinking, lying and sent me to his room. After I went to his room he lectured me and told me to stick my nose in the corner to think about what I have done until he calmed down. When he came back into the room I was already crying, not because of drinking, but because I was going to get one bad spanking. He pulled me to the chair and lectured me once again about lying and drinking. Then he pulled down my jeans and underwear, which was so embarrassing. He then put me over his knee. He spanked me with his hand and then took off his belt. It hurt so bad and afterwards I was doing the spanking dance. He hugged me and told me he loved me. But then he grounded me for a month. Was he right to do that?