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.

@TheWitchCirce

My teens call me Mummy but use 'my mum' when they talk about me. I cannot imagine finding the head space to care what adults call their parents.

This is our house too.

Our (adult) kids only call us mummy and daddy when they want to borrow money 😂😂

Granny sounds posh to me

Granny is not posh where I’m from. My mum refused to use it, we had grandmas. She is grandma, but MIL chose granny because she thinks it is posh.

I’m Scottish and it’s really not normal to call your parents mummy and daddy above primary age school where I’m from in Scotland.

I now live in Northern Ireland and most adults here seem to still refer to their parents as mummy and daddy, which I am slowly getting used to and trying hard not to find it borderline creepy.

I do it. And I like it!

I called my mother, "mummy" until she died when I was 50. Never called my father anything after I was 23, I went NC as he was a narc.
My younger daughter is 25 and still calls me, "mummy". She has similar problems with her own father who she hardly ever interacts with, though she's not totally NC. She only ever refers to him as, "father" or, "pater". My other daughter and son call me, "mum" and their father "dad".

I call my parents Mommy and Daddy. It just feels so weird to call them anything else. I occasionally refer to them as Mother and Father but that's more with my siblings when they're being frustrating. They've never asked to be called anything different and I can't bring myself to do it, just doesn't flow naturally. I'm 33 and definitely not posh or wealthy

@KittyMcKitty

Pretty much everyone I know calls parents mummy and daddy. I do and I’m not posh! My children (15 & 17) call me and dh mummy and daddy and I think the majority of their friends call their parents the same.

I think it’s probably just the part of the country you live in. I’m in the South East.

I'm in the South East too (more or less), and I don't know anyone that does that past the age of 10.

You must be in the posh bit. Seriously

Younger daughter just pointed out that her brother does call me, "mummy" sometimes. And, thinking about it, he does, sometimes. Definitely calls his father, "dad" though.
Haven't seen him since January, I miss him so much. 😭 (My son, not his father 😂)

I call my parents by their real names and my children also call us by our real name. We have never been mummy or daddy/ mum or dad. I think this is also very controversial on MN

My adult DC call me Mummy, and they call XH Daddy. Otherwise, my extended family all uses made-up names for one another (things like Nidnod). My siblings and I sometimes talk to one another about Ma and Pa.

Grannies are Grannies - never anything else. A Nanny is someone who is paid to look after children.

We also call our evening meal "supper" (sorry, OP).

We are in the North of England.

My girls 34 and 27 do whereas my son uses our Christian names. It doesn’t brother me either way but my husband is not keen on.being called by his Christian name. It was not something we made a conscious Des is ion about just what the kids feel comfortable calling us.

I'm not posh at all. Parents are mum and dad. Evening meal is supper.
Husband is not posh. Parents are mother and father. Evening meal is tea.
Child isn't posh. Parents are mother and father. Evening meal is dinner.

Make of that what you will 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’ve heard it quite a bit when I moved to wales, was shocked too

It does make me inwardly cringe to hear anyone over the age of 10 say that but i would soon forget about it.

Yes I call mine mummy and daddy. It's the done thing in Northern Ireland.

I refer to my dad as daddy but only because he died when I was 12 so the name is a bit frozen in time.
I’d find it a bit eccentric otherwise.

I’ve found no one that does as adults, except a few of my Irish friends, who say it’s fairly normal over there.

I was about 12 when I said to my mother "May I call you Mum". She said "I suppose it's better than Ma", which I took to be a "yes"

"Mummy" and "Daddy" said by an adult sounds very strange. I don't think my children have ever called me "mummy", I can remember only "mum". Nowadays it feel strange when they address cards and letters Dear Mum" rather than "Dear Dint".

I call my parents Mummy and Daddy. Those are their names! Don’t say supper. I’d be enormously sad if DD ever stopped calling me Mummy.

Nothing wrong with saying Mummy or Daddy or supper! I call my parents Mum and Dad, but do call our evening meal supper, because to me that’s what it is. I have friends who use all 3 and can’t see the issue. Why on earth does it matter or cause annoyance?

Well its mam and dad at my house, even the spell check hates it. Northern!

Evening meal is tea

Breakfast, dinner, tea. Oh and supper is something you have after night out

@Nocto

My adult DC call me Mummy, and they call XH Daddy. Otherwise, my extended family all uses made-up names for one another (things like Nidnod). My siblings and I sometimes talk to one another about Ma and Pa.

Grannies are Grannies - never anything else. A Nanny is someone who is paid to look after children.

We also call our evening meal "supper" (sorry, OP).

We are in the North of England.

My MIL is Granny and detests the term Nan or Nana. I always thought it was a Scottish thing. My mother is Welsh and is known as Nana to her grandchildren. It’s quite convenient they have different names; makes life a lot easier!