AIBU to think that is is completely normal to call your parents Mummy and Daddy as an adult.

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I read a thread yesterday where someone mentioned people calling their parents 'Mummy and Daddy' in parenthood. A couple of people said they called their parents 'Mummy and Daddy too'. I associate this name with young children, when I was a child everyone converted to Mum and Dad around the age of 7. Trivial I know and none of my business but I was wondering how widespread it is?

AIBU - it is normal to call your parents Mummy and Daddy in adulthood in a non-ironic way.

Some people do, yes.

If you're posh or pretentious then yes.

No rules about it, whatever you're happy with.

I desperately want to stop using them, but my parents get so upset when I bring it up.

I rather stereotypically associate this with very rich people.

Families do all sorts. My dad and I have always (well, since I was a teenager) referred to my mum as “Mater” when talking about her to each other. It’s bonkers and if anyone overheard us then it would sound even more bonkers. But it’s just our thing!

I've only ever heard posh people do this.

Most upper class people do this. It’s definitely a class thing.

Pretty common in NI to call your parents Mummy (or Mammy) and Daddy as an adult.

I feel a bit similar to adults who call their grans ‘nanny’ or their aunts, ‘aunty’. I don’t know why, it just sounds childlike from an adult.

@DisgruntledPelican
I've called my parents Mater and Pater in a jokey way before but wouldn't use it as my preferred name for them.

Only if you call your main evening meal ‘Supper’.

If you're posh, American or Irish (mammy)

I don’t see the problem with it, I still call my parents this sometimes, maybe I am pretentious but then who is it hurting and why does it bother people 🤷🏻‍♀️
My own children are over 7 and they still cal me mummy too.

It’s a class/poshness thing in my experience. Not middle class but proper upper class.
And maybe generational?

Yeah my MIL does it about hers.

My 24 and 27 yo DSS do it. I think it's cute. It warms the cockles of my soul
We are definitely not posh.

@ifigoup
I don't know why, but when I hear Mammy and Daddy come from an Irish person it is very endearing.

My friend from Northern Ireland would tall about her Mammy and Daddy and it sounded totally normal, but the English people I know who've been saying Mummy and Daddy are either from a rather wealthy background or sound quite affected aspiring posh. Both sound silly to me.

@maddiemookins16mum
I think you've hit the nail there. Mummy and Daddy combined with Supper is where it grates.

I feel a bit similar to adults who call their grans ‘nanny’ or their aunts, ‘aunty’. I don’t know why, it just sounds childlike from an adult.

Granny sounds posh to me, nanny sounds distinctly common (could put that more diplomatically but you know what I mean)

Just as normal as mum or dad.

My sister and I do. It is just what has always been done in our family. My Mum called my Grandparents that too. And I am sticking to it with my DD. Obviously I call my parents Mum and Dad when I talking about them to other people (because people would judge if I didn’t for sure!) but if I was talking to my sister or to them themselves I refer to them as Mummy and Daddy. I am 46. It isn’t an age thing for us, it is family tradition.

I associate with rich people too. I assume it’s because the children never really fully grow up as they are usually supported by their wealthy parents for life, so Mummy and Daddy fits.

@ShirleyPhallus
I think Nanny is more common and I can say that as someone who has/had Nanny's and Nan's.
I'm from a working-class background and my brother married someone from an upper-middle-class background.
My parents are called Nanny and Grandad, her parents are Grandma and Grandpa, the latter sounding much posher somehow.

Not all the time, but now and then.