To think a grown up shouldn't call their mother 'mummy'

[shebird]

Is it just a bit weird hearing a 40 year grown old woman call her mum 'Mummy' all the time. It just grates on me.
AIBU?

YABU - it's not your business so who cares what people in other families call each other?

I've noticed in cultures that use ' Mama', none of this confusion arises. I am still 'Mummy' and love it but then I am in denial at the rate at which they are growing up.

Father

I thought only very posh people called their mums mummy (when they're adult) :p

My 13 year old calls me mummy or mumma and I noticed that most of his friends still call their mum's mummy when they're addressing them

It is completely cringeworthy.

"It's none of your business" - well true but mumsnet would cease to exist if people only discussed things which are their own personal business. 🙄

My dad's dad called his wife (dad's mum) mummy in public. Think he started it when my dad was a child but never stopped. Never called her by her name, just "mummy". Was a bit sickly.

I hate it. Mummy and Daddy from adults is just cringe worthy.

My teens call me Mummy. I don't know why. I don't mind what they call me as long as it's not something like Bitch.
Mine do as well - not a problem.
(When I meet their friends, always make a point of introducing myself and DH by our first names so there is no awkwardness about what to call us, or awkwardness by the teens in introducing us. Never used to know what to call parents' friends and friends' parents when I was a teenager.)
I refer to DH when talking to DC as 'Dad' or 'Daddy' or his first name. He refers to me by my first name, or sometimes 'Your mother' or sometimes 'The mad old bat'.

I wonder why some posters think "Mummy" is the childish version?
Just a word - surely?
But, like others have said why on earth do you mind op?
It is a new year, so many nice things to occupy your mind... And yet, you decided to lather up over this

I'm 30s and call my parents Mummy (or Ma) and Daddy when
I speak to them. Know lots of adults who do the same. Guess we are all a bit posh.

Lots of reverse snobbery on this thread. Wish people would remember reverse snobbery is still snobbery...

Why? It's a sweet term of affection. Worse is when children call their parents by their first names (very formal) rather than mum/dad. That's really weird imo.

I say 'mum'. Each to their own.

I have 5 siblings aged 21-30 and we all say mummy/daddy to their faces - I do say mum/dad when talking about them to someone else though. It's an Irish thing. Oddly not Mammy/Mam but my Granny called my mother "your mammy" so I know it is common.

I sometimes call mine mummy and daddy sometimes mum and dad. It depends what mood I'm in. My parents are fairly posh though

My MIL insists on being called Mother, which sounds a bit formal and stiff to me, because she considers Mum 'common'. She is of Irish descent and doesn't have a problem with mammy, which to my ears doesn't seem any different from Mum, but now I see from this thread that it's quite usual in Ireland.

I think anyone can call their mother whatever they bloody well like. Without some person sneering at them.

OP I love the way you start the thread saying "it shouldn't be allowed...it's weird...it my grates on me". Then in the next breath say "of course, each to their own".

Which is it. Each to their own or it shouldn't be allowed?

Incidentally I call my mother "mom". My kids call me "mom" which I know most of mn find irritating and false.

I find myself having trouble giving a fuck about that.

Dd1 still calls me mummy despite my suggesting she changes to mum. She's 15yo and can't see her changing now. My younger ones use mum.

My grandad always referred to his father as daddy. I remarked on it once to dm, and she said his father had died when he was very little, so calling him daddy was just what he'd have used when he was alive. Switching to dad would have been rather false in that situation.

I wonder why some posters think "Mummy" is the childish version?
Just a word - surely?

In the same way as dog - doggy, horse - horsey, pig - piggy. Adding a 'y' on the end is something children do (and I recall there is a speech development reason for it, i.e. doggy is easier for a child to say than dog).

DS (7) still calls me mummy but I expect that will switch to mum soon.

I call my mother by her first name. Have done since was a stroppy teen.

Still call my aunts and uncles by their full titles though ;)

It's not really worth getting worked up over?

I call my mother Mummy. So does my sister. We are in our 40's.

Mam or Mammy/ dad or daddy is what I call mine. I'm 28 and struggle to give a single shit about what people think of it. YABVU to suggest it weird just because it's something you don't agree with or it annoys you.

YANBU at all. You're absolutely entitled to think it's weird. Just as I am entitled to think that holding that opinion is somewhat closed minded.

I am in my 40s and my parents are still mummy and daddy to me. Yes, I am probably "posh", whatever that means, but last I heard that wasn't a crime was it?