Mummy Daddy

[WhiteDust]

I've been reading a thread where the poster calls her Mum/Dad Mammy and Daddy. My Irish friend also (adult) does this.

My own children (teens) call me and their father Mummy and Daddy but refer to us as Mum/Dad when speaking to others.
AIBU to think this is ok?
Is it a bit odd for adult DC to say Mummy/Daddy?

I have an acquaintance who has a 14yo DC. When acquaintance refers to her DH when speaking to me (DC nowhere nearby) she refers to DH as 'Daddy'.

Would never question it, but I do giggle inwardly.

DS calls me Mamma. It's a bit of a joke between us but it stuck. He doesn't say it in front of other people though.

I call my father “Daddy” because I always have - in my mid40s now and unlikely to change!

DS1 calls me Mumsy, DS2 calls me Mummy or Mumma. DH is Daddy to both of them. Not cringeworthy in the slightest.

These things are regional/cultural as much as anything. So yep, I notice when an adult refers to their parent (in their absence) as Mummy or Daddy. It sounds odd to me, but I completely recognise that that's because I'm not used to it, and not because it's wrong.

My daughters will refer to me as Mum if they're talking to others, but one of them calls me Mumma when she's talking to me (and possibly to her closest friends who know me). The other one, I notice, will call me Mama in cards and texts to me, but Mum if she's speaking to me.

People can basically do as they like. No judgment.

my DM called her mother 'mammy' till the end of her life - and they are Irish. But I have never called my mother 'mammy' - she is 'mum' now, was 'mummy' when we were small children

My late Dad always referred to our Mum, as mi Mum, she used to go spare.

To outside people I always call them Mum and Dad. In cards/general writing, they are Mummy and Daddy. Talking to them I flip. It's not a class thing. It's not an age thing. It's a family thing.

I wouldn't worry either way unless they started calling me Muvver

I'm 31 and call my dad, daddy bear still. Call my mum, mum. Because well.....

To the poster who said Mummy and Daddy is grim past the age of 5 - get to fuck with that shit.

My eldest calls me Mother, my second DC Maw, my third DC Mummy and my fourth DC Mum.

They were all brought up exactly the same.

I stopped calling my mum mummy when I once put up my hand in class - first-year secondary school - and called the teacher mummy instead of "miss". I was so embarrassed that I pretty much started calling my mum mum from then on. The received wisdom was that calling your mother mummy was babyish.

My father died when I was ten so in my head he's always been daddy but over the years I trained myself to call him dad out loud if I'm talking to people about him which is a little sad really. I might undo my training and call him daddy out loud as well!

I've just remembered that when she was still alive and we were being full-on affectionate I'd always call her mummy-mum.

I am 54. Scottish upbringing. Still say mummy and daddy (now died) unless have to catch attention in public and then say mother.
My children switch between mummy and mum and are all grown up.
What is there to be judgmental about?
It served me well as my PIL (for cultural reasons) wanted to be called mum and dad which I could just about cope with as it wasn’t what I called my own.

Multi-post mental! If she was still alive - she's been dead for 20 years now, so I am very used to her not being here - today would be her 77th Birthday, so Happy Birthday, Mummy-mum!

I've got twenty plus something nephews and nieces that call their parents Mummy and Daddy, and I have to admit it sounds a bit odd. I think it's no coincidence that they're also the failure to launch kids.

I must admit when I got to the hospital twenty minutes too late when Dad died, having sat vigil for weeks and having been sent on an errand, I called him Daddy. God knows what Dad would have thought.

I call mine mummy and daddy, i’m 21 from Northern Ireland if it makes a difference a lot of people seem to here.

I'm from an Irish background, but was born and living in Scotland. I called my parents Mammy and Daddy until the day and hour they died, when I was 38. It's pretty normal in my circles.
My grown up children now call me mum, except when my son teases me saying haw maw! I don't care what they call me as long as they keep a civil tongue in their head.

Irish people and posh people use Mummy and Daddy. Posh people may say Mummy and Pa, or Papa.

I'm Irish, so it's Mammy & Daddy for me, always. Did live in England for years and people commented on it. Lol

can't bear it, sounds pathetic IMO

I think a lot of adults in Ireland say Mammy in a kind of jokey/ affectionate way. I would say something like 'Mammy, can you make me a cup of tea' but I'd never refer to her as my Mammy in conversation with anyone!

I call mine mummy and daddy (and I'm in my 40s!) but I refer to them (to other people) as my mum and dad. So I think that ties in with what you were saying OP.

DS used mum and dad from the start, never mummy and daddy, I don’t think I ever called my parents mummy and daddy either

I'm 24 and call them mummy and daddy. Fuck what people think it's internalised at this point