People who refer to themselves as Mummy it daddy

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Can't beat it. Why do people refer to themselves as mummy or daddy in the third person, smacks of a loss of identity.

With regards to phoning the school, wasn't the issue that the mother is calling herself X's mummy, rather than mum?

Otherwise I don't get it either

wasn't the issue that the mother is calling herself X's mummy, rather than mum?

Ah, ok - you might be right there.

Loublue child directed speech is not the same as using strange, somewhat unnatural speech patterns. I do research in this area.

pinky I think you've misunderstood me entirely. I didn't say I was right and you were wrong, I explicitly said that in fact neither was right or wrong, just that it wasn't a necessary thing to do.

I'm interested in how many couples who refer to themselves and each other as "mummy" and "daddy" have an entirely rewarding sex life ...

*Boggling at a speech and language therapist who thinks avoiding pronouns is a bad thing shock and that somehow children will leap into language with no half way house.

Total bollocks and please do not offer therapy to ANY children on the autistic spectrum. angry*

zzzz I didn't say that children didn't need age appropriate speech.
I also offer therapy to children with ASD/SLI (and have a child of my own with SLI incidentally), and my methods seem to work ok so far, and are backed up by my training and people far, far more qualified than I in this area.
As I said, if others chose to do it differently, that's fine. No one method works for all.

My Mil does this with my children.

"Oh granny doesn't like tomatoes" "granny doesn't know what Facebook is"

My children are 18 and 16.

It annoys the shit out of me.

I once overheard a mum, who was pushing her dc on a swing, turn to her dh and say daddy can you take over the swing whilst I go get a drink.... That was weird, he wasn't her daddy, he was her dc's daddy. The dc had no part of the conversation. It made me cringe.
If the dc are involved in the conversation then fine

Talk about timing. I was in a shop today and this lady was trying to pay but her husband (?) kept trying to get her attention. She pauses and goes "Daddy can you just give me a second please" . I found it so odd. The children they were with looked like they were around 13/15.

So odd.

Live in and out of hospital all his life with my 15 mi and all the nurses etc call the parents mommy and daddy. Even the 50 yo cleaner calls me mommy. It gets so ongrained i jmhave embarassingly refered to DH as Daddy to other grown ups instead of Steve and have called my own Dad on the telephone instead of DH cos i was looking for Dad not Steve.

Make very conscious effort to call Daddy Steve when not talking to 15 mo haha

Dp and I swore we would never do this (refer to ourselves in third person as mummy and daddy) as it always set our teeth on edge a bit. However...we do seem to be doing it a lot - I haven't made a conscious decision to but it does seem to make toddler communication a bit easier; pronouns are confusing. Nearly two-year-old ds thinks his name is "you" anyway so we're not doing brilliantly...

Does it matter what other people refer to themselves as? Maybe put your energy into something else other than fretting about this.