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AIBU?

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When do you stop..

130 replies

ginandjuice · 11/12/2015 22:15

...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?

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ExasperatedAlmostAlways · 12/12/2015 16:56

Adults calling their parents mummy or daddy makes me baulk!

Although I know it's common with Irish people and that doesn't seem to bother me for some reason.

My almost eleven year old calls us mum and dad. My six and almost three year old still say mummy and daddy.

ScrambledEggAndToast · 12/12/2015 17:04

DS stopped when he was about 10 and I was sad SadSad

TheBunnyOfDoom · 12/12/2015 17:08

I still say mummy and daddy and I turned 27 two days ago!

Doesn't bother me at all.

riverboat1 · 12/12/2015 17:08

Went out for dinner with a family friend the other day, she is 60-something and constantly referred to her 'mummy' throughout our discussion. She is quite posh, so I suppose maybe it is that.

I have called my mother 'mum' for as long as I can remember, but the funny thing is my dad (before he died earlier this year) would still call her 'mummy' when he talked to me, e.g. 'I'm having trouble finding mummy a birthday present' or 'have you talked to mummy about it?'. He wasn't posh at all! It was quite sweet though.

Sallystyle · 12/12/2015 17:10

About 8??

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