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.

I always used to call my DP Mum and Dad but as as we all got older, I then called them by their first names.

I just think of it for posh people and Irish people.
My dc are 8 and 10 they stopped calling me Munmmy quite a while ago now because they were embarrassed and felt it was babyish.
I don't know anyone past infants that calls their parents Mummy and Daddy.
I'm from North Yorkshire.

My dad is from Ireland and he and his siblings always said Mammy and Daddy. I'm always surprised that my 14 and 12 year old still call us Mummy and Daddy although they don't infront of their friends. We are about as far away from posh as possible.

My middle son calls me this when he want something from me. My eldest son calls me goose or mum an my daughter calls me mum.

I'm 28 and would feel a right twat if I called my parents mommy and daddy still. Think my dad would rip the piss out of me
Each to their own though.

Mummy, daddy, granny and grandpa used here. Also Irish but living in England. My dc call me mummy. I refuse to answer if they call me mum.

I'm in NI and started calling my parents 'mum' and 'dad' at about 11 or 12, although some of my friends stuck with 'mummy' and 'daddy' and that was their choice and always sounded normal and natural .

But DP says when he attempted to stop using 'mummy' and 'daddy', he was called disrespectful and punished. Even as an adult, he was met with 'what did you just call me?' and that was when he referred to his mother as 'my mum' to someone else on the phone. So, in the interests of family harmony, he still calls his parents 'mummy' and 'daddy' when addressing them directly. I'm sure it's obvious that this is the tip of a very big dysfunctional iceberg.

Are we doing this again 🤦🏾‍♀️

Call them whatever the hell you like, nobody else’s opinion matters...!

@DisgruntledPelican

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!

My sister and I refer to our mother as 'Mater' too. My father is Papa/Pops.

Definitely not a purely posh thing! My very welsh very definitely not posh DH calls his parents Mami and Dadi. I occasionally call my parents mummy and daddy but usually when I want something 😂

My Mum called her parents Mummy & Daddy all her adult life. I stopped calling her Mummy when I was about 10? Our DCs are 16 and 17 and still call us Mummy & Daddy in a non ironic way. I like it. Though DD has taken to calling me Maman, now she's doing A Level French

You do you.
People can call their parents whatever they mutually decide is right for them.

I use Maleficent and Lucifer.

Sorry if this has been said, but I think it is perfectly reasonable to directly speak to your parents as Mummy and Daddy, but when it grates or feels posh, is when someone is speaking to you and says " I'm taking Mummy out today", or " Mummy's poorly". Uurgh

I have a nickname for my mum but my father is still called Daddy, in 40 odd 😎

@Alonelonelyloner

You do you. People can call their parents whatever they mutually decide is right for them.

I use Maleficent and Lucifer.

Oh dear. We have supper and I call my parents mummy and daddy. She still calls her Mum Mummy too! Should I just go and kill myself? Other than that I'm a nice person I promise.

@peaceanddove exactly the same here.

Wouldn't have dreamt of calling my mum 'mummy' past the age of about 5. Probably because my friends would have taken the mickey.

My two refer to us as Mummy and Daddy (16 &14) and I like it. Their friends do the same.

Love 'Maman'

@Oooohbehave

It's normal if you're Irish or posh.

I am Irish and have never heard any Irish person say mummy. People usually say mam or mammy and some younger people say the more americanised 'mom'.

My dad uses the term “mother” when talking about his mum, and then when he’s with her he calls her “mummy” when talking to her.

It really grates on me!

Very normal in Northern Ireland

I'm 49 and I can still remember the first time (I was 11) I ever heard an adult use mummy and daddy and she was in her 60s. it's something most children grow out of in early/mid primary.
I do think it's seen as an upper/middle class posh thing to use. I still think it's weird but whoever/whatever, not for me x

I’ll never forget the Queen turning to the queen mother when Windsor castle was on fire and saying something along the lines of
Oh mummy our lovely house is burning down.
She’d have been 60 plus at the time

Our 89 year old neighbour, whose role models are the Queen and Hyacinth Bucket (sorry, BooKay), still refers to her long deceased parents as Mummy and Daddy.

I associate it with very upper-class people, not just middle. I asked my DC to call me Mum before they started school, as I didn't want anyone to assume they were spoilt or babied.

Should add my parents from a working class background were horrified when any of our friends called their Grandmother Nan or Nanna.

Had to be Grandmother or Grandfather

I assume this took them back to how their friends referred to their grandparents and so not acceptable for us as children.

Perhaps it is about where you have come from rather than where you are now.

I also call my parents Mater and Pater.