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

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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?

Musing....when you talk to your children about your parents what do you call them?

I dont mean the "We are going to see Grandma" type, but those conversations about your relationship to Grandma. "I am your mummy and Grandma is my Mummy", that kind of thing. If you tell your DC that Grandma is your Mummy, do you then refer to her as Mummy in front of them?

My cousins call their mother 'Mummy' and I find it quite endearing because you can hear how much they love her from the way they speak. They are in their late 30s. They don't use Mummy/Daddy as their parent names with their own children so no confusion there.

Ffs mummy? Daddy? Are they 6? My 10 yr old has grown out of that. Seems creepy for some reason.

Oh and I am from Scotland so I think Ma & Da is unacceptable too.

Well I am from Scotland and I've lived in North Yorkshire for years now. Ma and Da doesn't bother me in the slightest, neither does Ma and Pa, nor Mam and Dad.

Just Mummy and Daddy IME it's how a child talks about their parents. Hearing a grown man or woman refer to their parents as Mummy and Daddy to their friends/colleagues is just cringeworthy.

It's not important, it's not serious, it's not something I'd ever pull anyone up on at all. I just inwardly cringe.

I had a friend who still called her mother 'Mammy' (we're Irish) even in her 30s and I did find it a bit childish of her, like she couldn't cut the apron strings or something.

I call my mother 'Mam' and stopped calling her 'Mammy' when I was about 10, I think!

And I always refer to my parents as 'my mother / my father' when talking about them to others whereas my friend used to say things like 'Mammy is coming to visit me soon, I'm so excited!' and so on in that vein.

My kids, eldest is 13, all say mummy and daddy still. We live abroad and they don't hear a lot of other kids saying mum or dad (though I call my mother "mum")
I worried that it sounded a bit babyish at one point so this thread has actually reassured me a bit (not the OP but the replies!)

who Earlier you hinted I may have led a sheltered life to be upset by this thread.

I haven't.

I do think it is hurtful (however) to mock!

I thought about this over night - sad person that I am - and came to the conclusion that it is probably all about peer pressure in the formative teenage years as so many little ones seem to use Mummy & Daddy (or the Mammy variation).

If school friends look sideways, jeer or treat children as baby'ish & uncool for using mummy, then it is very quickly going to stop being used.
On the other hand, if school friends all use the 'y' then the name never comes under the spotlight and there is no reason to ever query the use.

Who .... re NQOTD : I was just answering the question about the acronym ....actually thought it was a really odd thing for someone to have posted !

Can't stand it when an adult calls their mum and dad, "mummy & daddy" makes me cringe!

My dad will always be my daddy, but in conversation I would say "mum and dad". They're only mummy and daddy when I'm talking to them. I'm 24, if that makes any difference to anything.

YABU

I am in my 40s and I still call my parents mummy & daddy. I don't care if anyone doesn't like it either! It's nothing to do with anyone else what I call my parents.

I always say "my mum" or "my dad" when I am talking to anyone else though.

Both my DS's (12 and 10) still call us Mummy and Daddy at home and with family. In front of their mates, we're Mum and Dad. It's just a long held habit I doubt they'll be yelling 'Mummy!' at me when they're fully grown, but can't say it would overly bother me if they did. I am their Mummy/Mum/Mother.

I call mine Mummy and Daddy to their faces, or when referring to them with each other. I call them 'my mum' and 'my dad' in conversation with anyone else though.

I guess it just never felt natural to me to suddenly start calling someone I'd known my whole life by a different name. I call my brother by his full first name too when everyone else calls him a shortened version, and I still call my aunt a weird name I made up for her when I was about 2. It's just habit really - to me, those are their names and it feels weird to call them anything else!

I don't understand what the big deal is though? Op yabu in the fact that its up to whoever what they call their parents.?it isn't hurting you. If you call your folks mum and dad then that is noone business but your own, same for people who use mummy and daddy.
Bogey i think i may be called nelly after that cartoon nelly the elephant ! We used to watch that cartoon a lot when i was little

I think there's a big difference between continuing to call your parents mummy and daddy to their faces (which I find childish but it's a personal choice) and calling them mummy and daddy when talking to someone else. If an adult says to me "I'm going to see my mummy next week" it sounds as weird as if they said "oh dear the choo choo is running late again" instead of train. In most of Britain these are terms used by small children so it sounds weird when adults use them, as if they haven't grown up.

YANBU. I find it strange as well. Although here in Ireland it's more likely to be 'Mammy' than 'Mummy' which sounds equally strange.

I'm actually to find out there are people in the world who think that it is "unacceptable" what other people call their parents.

Lordy.

Well, I was at M&S cafe earlier and a lady came in with her mother and toddler. They sat on the table next me me and the boys. It was only that BBC newsreader who looks like but isn't Natasha kaplinsky. A quick google tells me her name is Kate silverton.

Anyway she said to her mother 'mummy, what do you fancy?' and it made me smile and think of this thread!

YANBU - its cringey.

I used to call birds "dibb-dibbs" and suck my thumb.

Just like Mummy and Daddy i grew out of it.

Somethings kids can say that adults cant.

In Ireland it's standard to use Mammy. I don't see why it should bother you. Yabu

Salmotrutta - No not in Glasgow - about twelve miles from Glasgow.

You're absolutely right though; where I live is probably over ninety percent Irish ancestry. In fact all of my ancestors are of Irish stock.
My grandmothers were born in Ireland and my grandfathers were also of Irish origin.

So, I guess that kind of explains why, although I'm second generation Scottish, I say Mammy and Daddy - and also why many people in this area do the same.

We called my great granny "The Maw" - which I believe derives from Irish Gaelic for Mother.

Anyway, my parents (RIP) will always be my mammy and daddy to me!

YANBU

I'm Irish and I cringe at adults calling their parents Mammy and Daddy or Mummy and Daddy.

Sorry, but no special dispensation because of geography.