How old is too old to call parents mummy and daddy

[suchafuss]

My DD9 had just spent a few days with her GPs. When she got back she was upset as she had overheard them saying that she was too old to still call us mummy and daddy. She calls us mum and dad at school and to her friends and I like that she still wants to call us this. AIBU to think its none of anyones business and there is nothing wrong with this?

Being a foreigner, I didn't even know that at some point they stop calling you Mummy...if talking about asking me something : I need to ask my mum then it's mummmmmmy or mama. Husband is daddy and dada

I call my parents mummy and daddy to their faces, or say 'my mum', 'my dad' if talking about them.

My 8 year old DS still calls me Mummy most of the time but occasionally will 'try out' calling me Mum. He inevitably forgets and calls me Mummy again within an hour I just go with whatever he wants, and to be honest I answer to more names than I'd like to count! Unless it's in a whiney voice

Er, 53? Although I say 'Mammy'.

My DCs say Mum and Dad though

I switched to mum and dad when I was about six, but I don't think any age is 'too old' - admittedly I'd find it odd to hear an adult say mummy or daddy, but what they call their parents is up to them! So long as both child and parent are happy with the word used, it's not really anyone else's business to comment on it.

I was always "Mum", hate "Mummy", even from a toddler.

My 3 eldest DC still use Mummy and Daddy. They are 11, 10 and 7. My two year old calls me Mum. I have no idea why he shortens it and the others don't! I think that certainly by 10 I was using Mum but mine don't seem to be bothered. DD1 is about to start secondary school though so that may well change. I think the older two talk about me as "my mum" but they use Mummy to address me.

I think it's whatever they are comfortable with.

I was still calling my mother "Mummy" till she died, when I was 56 years old. She hated being called "Mum" and didn't like it if we called her by her first name. She was aspiring middle-class, daughter of servant class.
But what everyone else said, it is no-one else's business.

I hate it when people say stuff like this. Her age is irrelevant, if she wants to call you mummy or daddy for the rest of her life then that's nobody else's business.

My dd is 11. She still calls us mummy and daddy, both in private and in front of her friends. Except when she calls me mumsy-doodle instead

When she talks about us, I think she says mum and dad to her friends cousins, but mummy/daddy when talking to her grandparents and aunties/uncles etc.

I would have been happy for my children to carry on calling me mummy forever (I think it's quite touching when older children/adult children do it - will never forget the 'Mummy' in flowers at Princess Diana's funeral. Still makes me cry if I think of it), but the eldest changed it to mum at about 9/10 and the others followed suit!

I called my Dad 'Daddy' till he died when I was 22. He called his parents Mummy and Daddy till he died too. His sisters still use Mummy and Daddy to their 89 year old parents. I still say Mummy.

BUT - only in private tbh. The first time I realised it was unusual and that other children would laugh at me I was 10. So from the age of 10 it was Mummy and Daddy to their faces in private, Mum and Dad when talking about them to others and in front of friends.

My 13 year old calls me Mummy to everyone though - it seems normal in our school/area whereas it definitely wasn't in mine as a child. She's moving school next week so it might change and that would be fine with me. I don't think my 9 year old has considered saying anything but Mummy.

My 13 year old calls me mum but his dad is the daddy equivalent, as his dad is foreign My 10 year old calls me mummy and my 7 year old calls me mum and mummy depending on what he needs the situation. I think it should be up to the child.

My DD (21) calls me mummy.
My DS (19) calls me Mother Goose
If anyone laughed they wouldn't GAF.

I'm 34 and still call them Mummy and Daddy

I fucking hate 'mummy and daddy' but my teenagers still fucking say it. And my husband calls his million year old grandmother 'Nanny'. Shoot me now.

When she's ready to call you something else.

In my opinion, by the time a child is ready to enter double figures then mummy/daddy should definitely revert to mum/dad, so yeah aged nine should be going into mum/dad, plus it's not as formal mummy daddy.

No YANBU, they are. FWIW my 39 yo friend calls her parents Mama and Popsicle, both when talking to them and when talking about them - "it's Popsicle's 70 next month, not sure what do buy him" said down the pub the other night.

Yoikes! I would hate to be called "mum". Mummy or Mama.

40. I'm 39 and thinking I should probably drop the habit when I hit the milestone next year

Absolutely none of anyone else's business - whatever feels right for the child and parents. At the other end of the spectrum I'm a little sad the dd aged 3 has recently taken it upon herself to start calling us Mum and Dad (copying her highly esteemed older cousins I think!) but then that's up to her. Either way it doesn't mean she loves us any less!

My dd (15) still calls me mummy but only when she's trying to butter me up :)

I think they stopped it when they were half way through primary school.

It depends what your dd want - not what anyone else thinks

My DC are teens (youngest actually 12) and call me Mummy.

My sister and I decided to call our mother Ma for a while, because of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, but she didn't like it and asked us to stop.

Never . My DD is calling me that till she puts me in the crematorium.