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.

Not unless you're Jack Whitehall

I’m Welsh my grown up kids call us mammy and daddy 🤷‍♀️

My eldest son (33) calls me mummy; my daughter (22) calls me mum, and my youngest son (20) tends to call me mother. I don’t mind what they call me, as long as it isn’t rude!

I detest Ma, and by extension Grandma.

I intend to be a Nan, God willing and shall never be a Ma, grand or otherwise.

I use Mummy/Daddy as an adult but most people don't. My DC call us Mum/Dad from about 8. Nobody else I know uses Mummy/Daddy

Loathe mummy and daddy. My mother insisted on it. It was sooo cringe as a teenager. I now call her by her first name. I cannot tell you how awful I find it. A mum friend used it recently to refer to her mother. I must admit, I found her contrived—as tho she was making some point about being posh. Yuk. Go ahead and use it in privacy of your house if you must but not in public.

That said, erm, i do use supper. Haha. Not in a pretentious way—in fact, I find describing an everyday evening meal at home as “dinner” to be pretentious (to me, dinner is a big production!). Anyway. I had mummy and supper drummed into me by my mother. I think maybe I’ll need to abandon both terms.

I'm 34 and still call my parents Mummy & Daddy and I'm really not posh. It goes into their Birthday cards aswell. I like it as thats what I've always called them and will never change it

I'm 67, girls left home years ago and my husband still tries to call me Mum, I HATE IT. slightly off topic

It's just a name.

My son is 14 and refuses to switch to mum. I'd prefer him to because I don't want him to be thought of as posh and pretentious.

But he says why would he suddenly start calling me something different from what he's called me for the last 14 years. I see his point.

We are in no way posh or pretentious - believe me!!

We say Mummy, Daddy and supper. I’ve heard people say this is posh and to be fair my father is from a half posh-ish background. My mother is from USA originally and apparently this is totally normal there. My DSis and I found it so embarrassing calling them this as teenagers but we literally were not allowed to call them Mum and Dad. Sometimes we called them ‘Male / Female Parental Unit’ instead. As soon as I had kids we started calling them Grandma and Grandpa.

Working class family, very little pretension: call parents mummy and daddy to each other (three sisters) and to one parent if talking about the other “daddy rang last night”. Cute, not hurting anyone. Wish my 14 year old still called me it . And we eat tea not supper.

I have a pretentious friend who does this and call the evening meal supper, sends her children to private 6th form, so she can pretend they had all their education there. Absolutely busts a gut to invite wealthy parents from 6th form to supper.

I'm 73 and until daddy passed in 2017, he was always daddy as mummy was ..... mummy. My sister called them that as well but my brother called daddy.... dad. I'm not posh and alas not rich and my grown up boys call me mum. But if I ever refer to my parents, I call them mummy and daddy and this can be to people who don't know me and most probably think I'm a nutter.

Mine have been mum and dad since I was about 7 or so. My daughter (9) calls me "mama" and it didn't come from me, seems a few kids from school do it too.

I call my mum “mum” or “mumsy” tbh there no rules on this. Why can’t ppl just call their parents what they want and what they feel comfortable with regardless of the association? I know I would :-) my 5 year old calls me mama and my 21 year old calls me mummy. Lol

@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 think it's partly regional too. I grew up iin the north and absolutely nobody called their parents mummy or daddy past the age of 6 or you'd have got the piss taken out of you so badly.

I now live in Greater London and I regularly encourage my teens to switch. My son refuses point blank and my daughter says she'll switch when her friends do. She's 13 and all her friends say mummy and daddy and it's not considered at all weird. She is very conformist, unlike my son, so if it was uncool she'd have switched.

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@letsleepingbabieslie

We say Mummy, Daddy and supper. I’ve heard people say this is posh and to be fair my father is from a half posh-ish background. My mother is from USA originally and apparently this is totally normal there. My DSis and I found it so embarrassing calling them this as teenagers but we literally were not allowed to call them Mum and Dad. Sometimes we called them ‘Male / Female Parental Unit’ instead. As soon as I had kids we started calling them Grandma and Grandpa.

Inspired! Wish I’d thought of female parental unit. Haha. My mother absolutely insisted on it too. Mum and dad were VERBOTEN. Maybe if there had been some choice to it, I wouldn’t feel so strongly about it. But the only way around it was to call her by her first name... which is/was rather odd... but she doesn’t seem to mind that. Odd!

Ye Gods! Is your life so empty?

I’m not posh and would hate to be thought of as pretentious? I lost my father 3 years ago, he was 92 and I was 60, always called him daddy.

Get a life you lot. It doesn't matter what you call each other as long as it works for you. Unless your a name snob of course. One of my daughters calls me mummy, the other mum and my son by my christian name. They range from ages 50 to 43. I love them all the same, they all love me and their daddy, dad etc., the same, so just do it. If you've got time to worry about what to call each other, you need to get busier!!!

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@Aglet

Ye Gods! Is your life so empty?

Yeah 😆 the op did ask tho.

I did, to my late parents, and my children do to me.

It's not for me. My parents are mum and dad but my kids call me/us all sorts:

Mum/Dad
Mumma
Mooma
Madre/padre
Parentos

Motherington is the current nickname of choice. I find it hilarious and think it's a mark of how healthy and relaxed our relationship is and I like that. I hate formality.