why do people call their parents mom and dad?

Question

we don't call our siblings "brother" or "sister" in the same way that we call our parents "mom" or "dad" and i was interested in the history of this usage and why it is we would do this.

Answer 1

Let's not forget that "mom" and "dad" are shortened versions of the words "mama" and "dada," which are simple words made up of repeated syllables. These words were among the first words that you probably managed to make on your own, even before you understood the concept of language, and are undoubtedly why they are associated with your parents, because they are the first people you met and were (presumably) around at the time that you connected the sounds you were making with concepts in your brain. At some point in history, a child assigned the sound "mama" to this enormous woman figure that kept feeding it, and the name stuck. From that point on, mothers would reinforce this by saying "mama" to their babies until the babies associated the word with their mother.

This goes back about as long as we've had language; according to the American Heritage Dictionary, the word "ma" or "mama" is one of the words that seems to appear in one way or another in every language, and means the same thing: mother.

Answer 2

I don't, I call my parents Vivian and Pancho (which are not their given names) They don't seem to mind, and I've called them that for about 6-7 years now.

Answer 3

It's the way society works at the moment.