Aibu

[Worriedfirstmum]

So 37 year old woman still calls her mum mummy, is it weird. I no it aggravates her mum and everyone else. Surely it's not normal

i dislike this from anyone other the age of 5, but, having said that it's apersons choice as long as 'mummy' doesn't mind.other than that it would be rude to keep doing esp. when asked not to.

YABU for having no thread title. Calling your Mum Mummy at whatever age does not bother me at all.

I find it weird personally, but it’s not my mother, so not my choice.

as sparkling said better to have a title to your thread though so readers now the subject matter.
are you new on mn ?

I call my mum all sorts of things. Mum, mama, mummatron, mumsy, mother, mother dearest, mother load, motherlomanic... I’m sure they annoy the shit out of her, and others, but I don’t give a fig.

Or even motherlomaniac. I should read before I post. Not that this makes that particular nickname any better.

If it's deliberate to annoy the mother then its not nice but its between them.

If its what she has always called her and the mother likes it then it is nothing to do with anyone else. How on earth can it impact so much on someone else that they are annoyed by a word?

yabu not to have an idicative title to your thread.

I can’t stand it when grown adults call their parents mummy and daddy. Sounds so spoilt and snobby.

Prince Charles still does it.

I used to call my mum ‘mummy’.

When I wanted something. 😈

Sorry new on here, its the tone its said in that aggravates us all, it's a whiney child like voice.

Quite odd yes but I wouldn't feel the need to intervene or think too much about it. If 'mummy' dislikes it it's her job to say so.

In what way does it impact your life? Do you like people judging you for things that don’t cause any harm to their lives?

Yes, put a subject on your post next time. Generally I always vote YABU if there is no subject.

None of your business tbh I would t do it but people are strange each to their own

I am 52 and I call my Ps Mummy and Daddy. I really don't care if you or anyone else finds it strange or in anyway annoying. That is the name that I know them by. They have nicknames that we sometimes use by but only when we are joking around. I did call them Mum and Dad briefly when I was about 15 but it sounded fake and none of us liked it.

My DS is 20 and calls me Mummy. Some guys in a supermarket car park laughed at him over it recently and he called them out over it.

I have plenty of friends of a similar age and social background who use mummy or daddy as well.

I think that you are just annoyed by someone and are just looking for a hook to hang that on. Move on.

I have plenty of friends of a similar age and social background who use mummy or daddy as well

Absolutely.

In some ways it is a "class" thing.

In any case, why should it bother you, OP?

It's an odd thing to start a thread about.

It sounds a bit babyish. My cousin is 55 and still does it. When talking of her parents but not to them. X

Actually, OP, I find it very annoying when people start sentences with he word "so".

It grates on me too when adults call their parents mummy or daddy.

But I voted YABU because I have no idea why it would bother you so much to start a thread about it.

@TheMustressMhor and write "know" as "no" - so street innit…..

My 26 (soon to be 27) year old daughter calls me Mummy.

She lives with me and we are super close, and we are both very happy with it.

We're Scottish so sometimes she says "Mither" as a joke

The irritation is your own problem.

It’s between this women and her ‘mummy’.

I also find it cringe, also when women refer to themselves as mummy when talking solely to other adults and not small kids, instead of as mum, mother or parent, it's the infantile element of it that causes most people discomfort.

All my adult jewish friends call their parents mummy and daddy. No one else I know does this. Is it cultural?