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.

@Toddlerteaplease

You have just upped the game on this thread 😂

My mum is mum but I probably say daddy about half the time and dad the other half. Over 7 seems a young cut off - my 11 year old still says mummy and daddy and I can’t see it stopping anytime overly soon

Actually my mum annoys me a lot so I call her mother quite regularly

@DisneyMillie Lol same here.

Mother was an insult. Mum was acceptable.

Language is always evolving

My SIL calls my MIL “Mummy” and she’s over 40. Thankfully DH doesn’t or I’d leave. It seems to be posh, privately educated people who mostly do it.

My ds 14 still call us mummy and daddy but not in front of his mates. We are definitely not rich or posh 😂

I've only heard Irish people do it.

Only the very very posh people I know do this or some women I know who like Disney films too much.

I think it is so weird.

I don't think I ever called my parents mummy and daddy when I was a child, never mind as an adult. My gran was very vocal about how against being called "nanny" she was, because to her that was something you called hired help.

I haven't called my parents mummy / daddy since I was 9.

My own mother (in her 60s!!) and a grandmother calls her elderly parents mummy and daddy. Odd and she sounds absolutely ridiculous!

Why does what other people call their parents bother so many people? If it,s inoffensive whats the isue?

We're irish but lived in london and went to private schools

As adults I say mummy or mumsy, my brother says Mom
I dont think she cares what she is called so long as its not mammy!!!

Very common here in Ireland I'm in my 30's and still call my parents mammy and daddy ! Everyone I know also refers to their parents as mammy and daddy and no one blinks an eye

I’m from Northern Ireland (in London living now though) and it’s very normal for people to call their parents mummy and daddy as adults. Although some people find it a bit funny if I say it in London.

I call my dad “daddy” because when I am talking to him face to face, I am around my half brother and sister and they still call them mummy and daddy. I call my stepmum by her name but when I am talking to her in the room it is either mummy when I am talking to my siblings and nana when I am talking to her in general because my daughter is around and she is nana to her

I don't think its common. I remember a girl once wrote mummy on a permission slip for something at school where it asks whether you are mother/father/guardian etc and she got the piss ripped out of her for years. This was probably year 7 or 8.

Completely normal for me, but I’m not originally from England.

I do think posh people do this. Although the poshest person I know calls her mum by her first name.

@MrsSpringfield
But why? I’m not from England originally, so I’m trying to understand. I often refer to my mum as “mummy” (equivalent in my mother tongue) because it’s one of the ways to show love and affection to her during a conversation. Just because she’s always “mummy”, no matter how old I am. Why would it be ridiculous?

@Piwlyfbicsly - because small minded people with humongous chips on their shoulders find the most astonishingly trivial, harmless things to be judgemental about.

Ive always associated it with being posh

I find it very weird when adults call their parents mummy and daddy.

Mine are Mama and Papa. And the man I call Papa is actually my stepfather but he’s the person in that role for me. Mine calls me Mama, Mum or Mummy interchangeably and he’s in high school!

It's definitely a regional or class related thing. So are the different names for grandparents. None of them is right or wrong.

My mother is always Mummy but my father became Dad, rather than Daddy. My DC call me Mama but they're still in their teens.