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

[MillicentSmythFortescue]

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.

You can shove supper up your arse as far as I'm concerned, if you're talking about dinner. I consider supper to involve milk and be something small that you eat shortly before you go to bed.

Mostly I will say Mum and Dad but will sometimes revert.

Parentos is hilarious

I use both. I don't see it as childish or pretentious. They're my parents and I'll call them what I like!
My H called his parents Man and father. Not posh. V v working class.

My grandparents were Gran & Grandpa on one side and Nanna & Pops on the other side.

Everyone is different in what they call family members. Unless someone us shouting out Cunty or something similarly offensive I'm not fussed who calls who what.

I call them Mutti/Vati. Have since a teen and I'm not German so I hope/think that's ok? I was obsessed with German History and the language after an amazing trip there and it just kind of stuck...

I like it far more than Mummy/Daddy.

My 16 and 12 year olds dds still call us mummy and daddy and use ‘supper’. They’re very posh, but dh and I aren’t in the slightest. I can’t see it changing, as all their friends also use these names.

Why can’t ppl just call their parents what they want and what they feel comfortable with regardless of the association?

Because both snobbery and inverted snobbery are rife on MN.

@MillicentSmythFortescue

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 think it's a pretty insecure or attention seeking personality which still uses Mummy and Daddy, in adulthood. Otherwise, I have also witnessed people from lower, socioeconomic backgrounds also use it. This could be put down to their lack of understanding in appropriatness.

“ I think it's a pretty insecure or attention seeking personality which still uses Mummy and Daddy, in adulthood. Otherwise, I have also witnessed people from lower, socioeconomic backgrounds also use it. This could be put down to their lack of understanding in appropriatness”

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My DC still call me mummy and ex daddy. I can’t stand Mum. Grates on my ears. I called my parents by their names so it’s a step up from that

My grown up children called us Mum and Dad, but my son, now in his thirty's has reverted back to Mummy. I like it, it warms the cockles of my heart. Really posh people I have heard address female parent as Mother. This sounds so formal to me. I have always called my parents Mummy and Daddy and no way am I posh!

I still call my parents Mummy and Daddy. I also call my evening meal supper. Both apparently heinous crimes in the eyes of mumsnet that make me a pretentious cow.

I’m not ‘posh’ but I used to call my Mum ‘Mummy’ quite often, as an adult and I still call my Dad ‘Daddy’ when I talk to him .( I’m in my 50’s)
Why on Earth does it matter ?

Sounds a bit posh and childish

My darling mummy and daddy have gone now. Just saying or thinking those words fills me with warmth and fond, fond memories. GingerWit it's a personal thing, not pretentious or snobby or posh or sarcastic.

I am 37. My mother is still mummy or mumsy or mums; her mother was granny, her father was grandpa (to me, of course).
My dad (now no contact) was dad as soon as I hit 16/17, not daddy, and his mum and dad were nanny and grandad.
I always wondered whether it was because I felt more emotionally close to my mother and her side of the family than my father's side.
All of my aunties are aunties, not aunt. And great aunties are aunties, not 'Great Aunty xyz'.
My DP calls his mother mimi and his father didi based on what he called them when he was little.

Not posh. Not pretentious. Call mine Mummy and Daddy - not if I’m talking about them outside the family though.

I never felt the need to change because everyone else did.

Plus my mum called her parents mummy and daddy. And they (my grandparents) spent so many years parenting that even in old age and with no children around they called each other mummy and daddy, it was very sweet. They were from east London, one working class and the other more middle class with a good education - so I’m not sure if that came from their working class or middle class background.

I use Mummy & Daddy, because my parents didn't like Mum & Dad. Very tricky at school & was bullied enough for other things so I got into the habit of referring to them as my Mum & Dad when talking about them to others.

33 now & still follow the same habits!

I always call our evening meal supper.To use dinner suggests something much grander to me and I don't like to raise hopes.

@tommyhoundmum

I always call our evening meal supper.To use dinner suggests something much grander to me and I don't like to raise hopes.

Agree. To me a “dinner” is a white table cloth affair. Supper is a simple thing. My dh says dinner so I try to say similar. I had no idea supper was pretentious! Then again, I read the phrase “kitchen supper” on here recently, which someone reaaaaaally hated 🤣. To me, that’s the ultimate in understatement... not just supper, but a v. simple supper... in the kitchen (im thinking soup, cheese, bread etc). I expect this overuse if supper is causing illness among the supper haters. Sos.

If I want something I call them mummy
And daddy 😂🤣

I've personally known well-bred people, and not well-bred but rich people, and neither of these. First used Mama as in Muh-mar, and Papa as in Puh-par (think Downton Abbey); the latter two used Mummy and Daddy. I've always found the latter utterly pretentious and can't quite understand why parents would insist on having their children use this infantile form of address for themselves. But, each to their own ;-)

Our family is based in the Midlands but rural.
We have supper and lunch.

I'm Mommy to my children and my parent is Mommy to me, Nanny sparkle to my children who also have Grandma and a Granny/ Grandad plus Nanna and Gramps.

We are not pretentious not middle class either. We are as we are.

I'm Granny unless I'm in trouble then I'm GRANDMA!! I'm Auntie to all my neices and nephews and they're 30 and 40 years old. It's a mark of affection, we are all very close.

Kids these days seem to prefer Mother after Mummy! It would very much depend on the age of the person.

I always used to think people sounded faithfully posh calling their parents Mummy and Daddy. Until I realised that's what I called mine too. I'm not posh.

My kids call me Mum or Mumma.