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?

mine are 6 and 9 and call us mum and dad - mummy and daddy sounds weird to me too

wigglesrock my brother used to call my parents Ma and Pa, so my children did plus Pa is easier and quicker to say than Grandpa. They call their other grandad Bob! Don't ask!

It might well be a class thing as my Mother's family are incredibly posh if you realise you use these terms because it is considered "posh" DON'T DO IT ! because it just smacks of being seriously up your own bum. I have friends who use Mummy & Daddy and if you asked them "is it because its posh" they would laugh. It probably doesn't enter their field of thought, it isn't questioned. For those who choose to use Mummy & Daddy quite consciously, it is often because they are being pretentious.

I call my mum 'mummy' but only to her face and not in public and I wouldn't prefer to her as "meeting my mummy for dinner". She is my mummy, she's been a wonderful parent and I'll call her whatever I bloody well like. She prefers to be called mummy.

I call my mum and dad mummy and daddy and I cringe at myself! I hate it, and dont know why it is that way. They called their own parents mum and dad. I think it makes them cringe too. I had a bit of a go at switching when I was a young teen but it felt awkward and even more so now (I'm 46). Aaargh

MiniTheMinx, Thats why i try not to on here/facebook, but as my parents refuse to answer to anything else I don't have much choice when I'm talking to them

My Northern Irish relatives call their parents Mummy and Daddy. My own father called his father Daddy till he died well into his nineties!

why are people getting so annoyed? its just a bit of banter! sheesh.

Xihha, yes I understand. I couldn't refer to mine when speaking to others as Mummy & Daddy, it would seem pretentious and I think it gives a certain impression, not one I want to convey. My mother died two years ago, she was Moomin, not a term I would use when speaking to other people either!

Muther and Favver. (Can just hear Jarvis Cocker as I write....)

My DD1 calls me Mummy - she is 35. I like it. I wish DD2 would too but she has a selection of her own names for me (very odd ones which would make you cringe even more.)

jassy apologies for the tampon comment...

So us Norn Iron wimmen call our folks Mummy and Daddy! i'm not posh though, my son calls them Nana and Nanda and he's 17!

I think its lovely, xx

Like I said before, calling them mummy & daddy when speaking directly to them seems like a cute term of endearment, but as an adult, to tell your friend in general conversation - 'I'm going to mummy and daddy's this weekend' makes me cringe!

I still call my mum mummy but generally call my dad, dad. I'm 35 and not posh so when I call her mummy, it's in a sweet way (like "I'm still your little girl" type way rather than "I'm off to the Henley Regatta with Mummy").

In France, they call their mum and dad maman and papa all their life and only use mother and father when saying mon pere and ma mere.... as in Ireland when it's mammy and pappy.

WTF, . I accept it's one of my big peeves!

I called my parents Mammy and Daddy up until the day they died. I was thirty-eight then!

It's perfectly normal here for people to say that.

Dh and myself say mum and dad, and tbh don't know many adults who say mummy and daddy, but it really wouldn't bother me at all.

DD is 11y and calls us mummy and daddy, though I have noticed she will often say mum and dad in front of school friends, though mummy and daddy still in front of closer friends. I can't see her stopping any time soon tbh as it is what she feels comfortable with most.

The thing I find more odd is when people call their parents by their first names, and I hate the use of Mother and Father (unless used in a jokey manner) - that makes me feel the parent/child relationship is in some way distant.

Hulababy

Agreed, using first names for your mum and dad /mummy and daddy/ ma and pa is a little weird.

I went through a phase of calling my mum by her first name for a few months, when she asked why I said it was because everyone else called her that I was about 3 or 4 at the time..

I still call mine mammy and daddy in my pat twenties! I might start calling them mother and father now that I'm a grown up. Far more proper.

sharri

It's not about being 'proper' for me...

It's about the fact that you're a grown up not a child anymore..

Mother and father sounds very proper to be fair

Mummy and daddy sound very childish IMO

No qualitytoffee, mammy and daddy.

Well I'm 47 and still call my mother 'Mummy' -- only when I'm actually speaking to her, though. When my brothers and I are talking, we refer to her as the Memsahib or by her initials. To anyone else she's 'my mother'.

what's with the kisses qualitytoffee?

just the type of woman i an who
Oh shite, sorry
There! I've done it! I've managed not to put kisses on!

stleger it must be a dialect thang...my mum is from Ireland, My da is from the North! Would that be it?