To think calling your parents 'Mummy & Daddy' is a bit silly after a certain age..?

[Whothefuckfarted]

Example: 20 years old, mum to one, own place, but still refers to her parents as 'Mummy & Daddy'

I received a text from her when she was in labour saying 'Mummy's coming round to take me to hospital'

Often refers to them as 'Mummy & Daddy' in direct conversation and on social media sites too.

I totally cringe every time. AIBU?

I don't think people think its low class (whatever that might be) specialsubject!

I've only ever heard "posh" grown up people using Mummy and Daddy!

( I don't believe in class anyway. Just good, bad and indifferent with some people being richer than others)

OP you are so lighthearted and witty!

I like the Mut and Dat I'll have to remember that, mine are 8 and 12 so we are still Mummy and Daddy at the moment.

Some people take this all too seriously...

no offence intended but mummy sounds so spoilt and snobby. must be the irish in me. I realise its not logical. but that's what I picture.

I blame peppa fuckin pig!!!

Whothefuckfarted You have made me laugh out loud

I wish I still had my mother here to call here 'Mummy' (or Mum, Mam, Ma, Mumsie.)

I am 58 & there are times when I still think - "I want my Mum".

Does it matter WTF you cal them?

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Another nasty thread. Op, have you considered this might be a bit mean?

My daddy is daddy and my mummy was Mater and then Matey.

So yah boo sucks!

magimedi not at all, of course it doesn't matter in the slightest. It's not like my ears burn off when I hear it

Just makes me cringe!

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You must live a sheltered life to consider this a nasty thread....

Like I said, it depends on where you live. I live in South Yorkshire and mummy and daddy sound horribly upper class.

Whorhefuck I was actually quite enjoying the thread until your tampon comment. Seriously?

I'm 25 and still call my parents Mummy and Daddy when I'm talking, I try not to on here or facebook though because i know a lot of people find it weird. Mummy is nearly 60 and still calls her parents Mummy and Daddy too, as do her sisters and Grandmama says Mummy and Daddy when she talks about her parents too.

It might well be a class thing as my Mother's family are incredibly posh.

My OH still calls his Mummy and Daddy. In fact his mum refers to his dad as Daddy too. Rather than 'your dad'.

I find it VERY WEIRD.

YABU

Tho I do say mum and dad when I am talking about them. And my children call my Dad Pa, he now only answers to that so I look a right twat yelling "daddy! Daddy! Daddddeeeeeeee!" in shops. I have to call him pa now!

I'm in NI, I think I still sometimes use it. My Mum see what I did there still calls my Nana Mammy, so do all her siblings and my Nana signs birthday cards to them ..... love Mammy.

Rufus43 my kids call my Dad - Pa

YABU. None of your business what other people call their parents. My 27 yo and 25 yo call us mummy and daddy. My 23 and 21 yos call us ma and pa. I answer to either mummy or ma. My 6 yo is trying to switch to mum.

I cannot bear mum. When I was too old to call my mother mummy I just stopped calling her anything at all.

It's like calling a dog 'a doggy' for me - something that children say. Yuk.

Of course, I'd never say that to my OH. He's quite posh too, boarding schools and all that.

Mum and Dad is fine. Or even Ma and Pa. Adding the 'y' on the end makes me go 'urh'.

My parents always called their parents mummy and daddy - even when said parents were 80 plus.

My neighbour's grown up children call him 'papa', but they're vair posh.