When do you stop..

[ginandjuice]

...Calling your parents mummy and daddy?

Not an aibu but just curious.. When is really too old to be using the names mummy and daddy?

I always called my father "daddy," and my mother "mother." My kids are 16, 14, and 5. The older two call us "mother" and "father" but the baby calls us "mommy" and "daddy."

It does bother me lol I already said that, I find it odd and cringed when we are out.
If he still does it at 17/18 I will definitely laugh and tell him how weird it is

Ps Cora it IS my family-
My Dh my step kids so, my family..

I remember agreeing with my sisters that we'd ask for permission to stop calling them Mummy and Daddy and start saying Mum and Dad instead. I was late primary at the time.

My DH calls his Mum 'Mum' when talking about her but will often say 'Mother' to her face, especially if he's winding her up about something, or doing some mansplaining.

My dds seem to have grown up calling me Mom. We are not a Mom area, more a Mum area. I've given up correcting as the difference isn't that noticeable, but it did used to bother me.

DD1 has started to call me 'Mother' like her Dad does with his, but jokingly and I occasionally call her on it (also jokingly) as I don't want it to stick, but other times let it go.

Have you changed your name op
Your posts are no longer "a different colour?

We have called ours Ma, or Moominmamma since our teens (we are now 49,43 &40). Dad has been Dad, or Pa.

My sister's girls call their parents by their first names.

My eldest DS (28) is most likely to call me mummy; DD (16) who has SLD, generally calls me mum; DS2 (15) calls me either mother, or my childhood nickname .

I respond to all of these!

Yeah shit I had changed for a emotional post yesterday then just realised and changed it back there without thinking, sorry guys! No confusion was meant

Your opening post suggested that you were just wondering.
You weren't. You had already judged in your mind... Then decided you'd share that here too. l imagine based on what responses you got
Just butt out.

Yeah, best not to change your name half way through a thread.

please.

When mine talk about me eg to their friends they say "my mom"

When they talk to me they say "mommy can I have..."

Mummy said in a tiny baby voice by a grown woman......I know someone in her late thirties that does this

My mother and her siblings called their father Daddy until he died in 1963, aged 82 - their mother had died young, but they always referred to her as Mammy. It didn't sound at all odd to me and they were a very down-to-earth, undemonstrative bunch.

I don't think that was unusual back then, from our background (Scotland and Ireland). Mum and Dad were regarded as a bit too modern and Mother and Father a bit formal.

My cousins are aged between 52 and 60 & still call their mum mummy. They called their dad daddy until his death. They are considerably posher than myself though - we are the "poor" side of the family .

DD is 4 & will use a mixture of mum/mummy but always says daddy. I think the change will just happen naturally over the next couple of years, as it did with her older brothers. It's not something we'll make anything of TBH.

I still call my mother, Mummy. My father I called by his name from about the age of 10.

I've already decided that when i bring forth life from my loins, they shall be Nanny and Bampy. how funny, that is what DH's parents are called by their grandkids. I thought Bampy was a made up name.

My SIL still calls them mummy and daddy. DH laughs at her for doing so but secretly does himself when he forgets I'm listening

My DD mostly calls us Mummy and Daddy but she is 7 so that's ok! And she gets great expression in when I have done something wrong/daft - "oh Mummmyyyyy!!"

My DM is Mummikins

I called my father 'Daddy' until he died at 86. I was 45. But I started calling my mother Mum instead of Mummy when I was probably 10-ish.

DS1 calls us Mum and Dad. DS2 has called us Mother and Father since he was probably 15. Unless he's calling me "Mum Mummy Mum Mum" a la Stewie Griffin.

31 and I think I'll always call my parents 'mummy' and 'daddy' when I am talking to them. But then I am arguably a bit posh...

I'm 34 and still have a mummy and a daddy Ds is 3.5 and I get mummy in the middle of the night or when he's talking about me to someone else, "muuuuuum" screached to my face though!

Can someone please explain why some 'posh' people call their parents mummy and daddy when they're adults and in many cases have had more contact with nannies than parents?

Grunt
Maybe because it is just a couple of words.
Someone somewhere decided it was babyish and 'posh'
The 'posh' people obviously didn't get that memo and don't give a fuck!

After strongly discouraging DS at the age of 5, I hope to be "Mummy" forever.
DH is "Babbo", the down-to-earth Tuscan name for father which he used for his own DF.

HOWEVER, we get called every possible combination of syllables:
Mammy and Bubbo
Mubby and Bammo
Bummy and Mabbo
Mabby and Bummo...

I don't remember calling my Mum "Mummy" although I'm sure that I did. I know by age 6 they were Mum and Dad. I'm 30 now and still occasionally revert to Mummy if I'm sad or ill. Pathetic or not. The occasional Daddy as a joke when I want a favour. My sister and I call them Mother Bear and Papa J (surname) between ourselves. The one thing neither would allow was "Mam", despite them both referring to theirs as "Me Mam" etc.

I still call my mum, mummy. I always have and I don't see the need to stop.

I'm 'Mum' most of the time to DS1 (10) and 'Mummy' to DS2 (4). The only time DS1 calls me Mummy is when he's upset or unwell; it's an involuntary thing I think.

I've never referred to my Mum as Mummy but my Dad has always been 'Daddio' and I still call him that at 34.