To think this is unusual..

[newmumma43]

Does anyone call themselves 'mummy and daddy' all the time? Like, 'mummy can you pass the remote?' 'Yes, daddy!'

Good god, no.

I refer to my partner as Dad or daddy to the kids. Not when they're not around tho, that's a bit weird. Although I have done it by accident more than once

Only when we were trying to get DS to say it!

I had a boyfriend in my teens who's parents did that. He took me to meet them one Sunday afternoon and it was all "would you like a cup of tea Mum?" "Biscuit Dad?"

I had this horrific flash forward and dumped him soon afterwards.

“Ask your dad” - yes
(To DH) “Dad, please pass the salt” - no way

I knew an old couple in their nineties who called each other mummy and daddy. It made me smile tbh as they were white posh.

Absolutely not!

Quite posh not white posh!

Oh god my in laws do this and my mil once asked if I wanted "grandpa" to help for a few days (not envy)... makes me cringe!

@Tighe white posh!! Made my chuckle

Weird yes, was common many years ago.

My parents used to say things like 'what did dad say?' Or 'ask mum'. But I also remember when just they were talking it would be their names. Now I have a baby I'll say things like 'daddy's home!' Or 'let's wake daddy up!' But if I'm talking to him, it's his name!

@newmumma43

Does anyone call themselves 'mummy and daddy' all the time? Like, 'mummy can you pass the remote?' 'Yes, daddy!'

Only when talking to the cat, e.g., "I'm sure Daddy will let you out. Mummy can't be arsed right now."

We do it when talking to our 1 year old, but if she’s not here or we’re just talking to each other no, it wouldn’t be would you like a drink daddy? It would be would you like a drink John? Or whatever your partner is called.

DS has never called us Mummy and Daddy anyway, so it would be even weirder, but God, no.

Like a pp, I had a friend when I was about ten whose parents addressed one another as 'Mother' and 'Father' ('Father! Your breakfast's ready!' 'Coming, Mother!'). I think of them now as though they were in their late seventies then the mother wore one of those crossover pinnies and slippers around the house, and had hair so 'set' into rollered crimps, you could have banged on it with a doorknocker but actually, calculating, they can't have been more than early 50s.

God knows why they appeared to have teleported from a Hovis ad.

Yeah around the DC we are mummy and daddy (we have a toddler and a baby) but to each other we use our names.

@Gubbeen 😂😂😂

I think its kind of sweet when my MIL tells her 45yo son to "ask Daddy"

She doesn't refer to him that way all the time but if does slip out on occasion and I think its lovely.

God know! I hate it when people do that its creepy.

No not know

My parents call each other mum and dad. I don't really notice because I'm used to it but I do worry about what other people think! It is very strange.

I remember being in a supermarket once and my dad shouted across the aisle to my mum, calling her mum. Someone looked and you could see their face was like...'there's no way she's his mother!'

I feel embarrassed now

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If I'm being passive aggressive....shush children daddy needs his sleep, now children let's clean the kitchen that daddy left.

Or 'ask your daddy'.

But if the kids aren't around or I'm talking directly to him it's Paul, or dickhead depending on my mood!

Yes, when the dog is involved!

@suriv that whole post made me laugh!