to think a 30 odd year old woman...

[bea]

shouting out to her 'mummy and daddy' is a little bit icky?

I'm probably Xenia's idea of a "delta mummy" as I think and say mam and dad I am in my 30s very northern and awfully working class.
DH says mum to his mother, but refers to me as mammy when talking to our DS who is only 6 weeks old.

To answer the question: Yes. Why can't we just live and let live?

it is an upper class greeting.

It's just a class/regional thing. Some people stick with mummy, others move on to Mum at a certain stage. Whatever floats your boat.

I do cringe at myself still calling my father 'daddy' but I can't stop myself - my mother insists on 'mummy' and somehow my brain thinks that means I have to carry on with 'daddy'.

My dad worked for Barclays Bank before he retired and, during a time when there was a spate of kids of bank managers being kidnapped as part of bank robberies, we had a secret code whereby if I phoned him and called him 'daddy', he'd know I was in trouble. I was in my early teens at the time. Luckily I never had to do it, but it did kill off any desire I had to call him 'daddy' in normal life!

I can't stand all this alpha/beta crap. Seems as though it's alpha if you do it but anything else is beta. I'm comfortable in my own skin and I'm working class, wouldn't want to be anything else. I use the word mum too, take me out and shoot me at dawn for it. As far as I'm concerned I'm an alpha mum for being here with my children and caring for them. Each to their own eh.

I think...each to their own.

I called my mum - mam, but I would still call my dad - daddy - if I was after something (yes, even in my 30s, lol).

Sadly the w stepmama got in the way and, erm, it's strictly Dad now, cos I can't be arsed to creep round the bloke for favours anymore.

Although im old enough not to, when i want something (i.e babysitter) i still call my mum mummy.

i dont do it on purpose, its like word vomit, its out before i know ive done it

and then she knows im going to ask her to do something

for some reason i think its a bit icky if grown man says 'mummy' grown woman says 'daddy'

I was happy to be icky if it got me my favour, lol.

If I am talking to one of my sisters, I say Mummy or Daddy but if I am talking to anyone outside of our family I say my mother or my father. Occasionally my mum or my dad if I am trying to be estuary! I think I alter it because it does sound slightly yeuchy to anyone else. DP calls his mother Mummy and I do think him and his brother sound completely wet when I hear them say it - double standards!

I call mine mum and dad.
Sometimes, mother when I'm being sarky.
Call dad Papa sometimes, but only around his spanish family.
Just curious, Xenia, what do you call your parents? Mother and Father or Mater & Pater?
BTW OP - each to their own I say...

There was a pink, middle aged British couple on a local beach last summer who plonked themselves near us and talked VERY LOUDLY all afternoon. Even when their kids were not within hearing distance, they referred to each other as mummy and daddy - as in "Could you pass me the suncream please, Daddy". Bloody odd but fascinating, a whole afternoon of free entertainment, bit like a real live Victoria Wood sketch.

it did make me double take when a woman in her 50's introduced me to her 'mummy' (in her 80's) a few years ago....

My teenagers call me mummy when they are being winsom or want something. Little ones call me "maman" - or mum when whining, as in muuuuuuuuuum (dh hates hates mum in any form, prob because he associates it with whinging). My sisters called our father daddy all the time - I followed the daddy-when-I-want-something rule

Would anyone seriously shout "mummy and daddy?" I sometimes say mummy to piss her off, never crossed my mind an adult would say it seriously.

I hasten to add i have better things to worry about!! Knock yourself out!

I have taken to calling my mother "Grandma" as I rarely see her without the children. My MIL calls her parents mummy and daddy. My nieces and nephews call their parents by their first names. I think it is a personal thing, using a whiny voice when you are a grown up is a hanging offense though.

i must be odd as after waiting 12 years for dd who has cp to say Mum I am over the moon.
so she calls me Mum and dh by his first name(she can't do dad)
so think yourselves lucky that your dc's could say it at an early age and imagine what it iwould be like if they couldn't say anything.
(sorry had to post even though I know it is a case of each to their own)

Was going to say pretty much the same thing DS.

Many of the Irish people I know use Mummy (or Mammy)

I have a 29 year old friend and her mother and father call each other mummy and daddy! i.e. would you like a cup of tea mummy? Oh yes please daddy...... makes me cringe!

I now call my parents by the names ds calls them, even to other people, even when ds isn't there. I was a little about this.

But then my brother revealed that he calls them the same (and he has no children of his own).

Yes, lots of Irish people do use Mummy. That probably explains Xenia's use of it. Big lol.

or Auntie... it took me years to get around the idea of people calling their aunts like that not matter the age of aunt or nephew/niece. (First heard it from a 6 foot tall fortysomething painter!

But now I understand it's a cultural thing.

MY mom is definitely a "Mom" if i ever call her "mommy" she knows i'm about to try and wheedle something out of her.

Dad hasn't been Daddy since i was little.

My son currently calls me "mumumumum" and my mom "nanananan" lol, but he's only 9mo old and hasn't worked out that he doesn't need to repeat the sound, lol.