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've used Mum and Dad since I was a child cant remember when I stopped saying Mummy and Daddy, as does my middle sister , my eldest sister calls her mummy tho and her adult children call my sister Mummy, I do love the way Irish use Mammy, sounds completely different def think Mummy is a posh thing tho lol , My youngest lad sometimes calls me Mumsy

I call my dad Daddy because that's his background.

I'm mum to my adult kids, mummy to the dog.

It seems quite normal to me to call them that to their face. But not when mentioning them to others.

My adult daughters still call me mummy. My now elderly dad called his mum mummy. I’ve never considered that I should call my mum anything but mummy. Although if I was talking to someone about her I’d most likely say “I don’t talk to my mum these days” and reference her as mum rather than mummy.

Personally can’t stand the use of mummy or daddy at any age feels very twee to me.

My DM insisted on being called Muma when I was younger and I couldn’t wait to drop it.

I have to admit that this thread is an eye opener for me. I really had no idea that so many adults still used the terms mummy and daddy.

I'm glad it was started because I will no longer think that adults who do this are vair vair posh

I have never ever heard it in Australia or NZ from anyone aged over 7

The first time I ever heard it was when I was in my 20s working in London from a female lawyer the same age as me & I did a double take, I thought she just be joking.

Clearly I’m a colonial rube

*must not just

This is not just a posh or rich people thing as some have assumed.

One side of my family is Jamaican. They are neither posh nor rich nor pretentious. But the adult kids on that side, still say mummy and daddy out of respect. It’s a respect thing for some Jamaicans.

So with some people it’s more of a cultural type thing. Don’t be as ignorant as to assume it’s only for posh or rich people.

Nope.

Very uncomfortable.

My partner's family are Asian and all call their eighty something year old mother 'Mummy', some of the sons and daughter-in-laws do as well. Seems fairly common in their culture.

I don't, because she's not my mummy. Mine is variously mum/mummy/mother/her name, depending on my mood.

South east here and most of the time I'm already "mum" to (primary aged) and certainly in school they all say "ask your mum/dad" etc. Not Mummy/Daddy.

Similar to what happened with myself and my parents.

Hobbitytoes
"(you cannae throw your granny aff a bus )."

You can throw your OTHER granny off the bus though

I still call my dad daddy if I want something but more in a jokey way. He just rolls his eyes and asks what now?

It’s very normal for our family as we’re Irish and every Irish family does but also ma and da

I am an older Mummy. That is the name my children, now adults, have always used. Similarly my Mummy who still answered to that name in her eighties, and her Mummy before her. Grandmother's in my family are Nannas. Aunts are Aunties. Family tradition, I guess. I did notice that my daughter would refer to me as "Mum" on the phone to University chums but never calls me anything but Mummy when addressing me. @maddiemookins16mum you worry me, do you go to bed without supper? And why would the name of anyone or any meal grate? (unless it is cheese...) :D

My best friend, whose family are of Jamacian descent, calls her mum 'mummy' as do all her siblings.

Also worth adding, she's not posh and in her fifties (friend not her mum).

@newlabelwriter

My best friend, whose family are of Jamacian descent, calls her mum 'mummy' as do all her siblings.

Precisely the same as my cousins, who are also of Jamaican descent. It’s a respect thing in Jamaican culture.

IDC I call my mum, either "mum" or "mama" and my dad, either "dada" or "papi".
It makes me laugh and it's a form of affection. Or affectation if you want I still don't care!

@JacquelynScieszka I think the MIL is pissed because she's the granny getting shoved aff the bus.

It’s mother and dad where I come from, or mom. Not american.

I stopped calling my parents Mummy and Daddy when I was 5. I don't know anyone past that age call them that.

In Scotland it is not common at all to call your Granny “nanny”. “Nana” yes, but not Nanny. For that reason, I remember being really confused as a kid when browsing in England for a card to give my Gran for her birthday and seeing loads of cards to “Nanny”. Having only come across Nannies in Mary Poppins and the Sound of Music I genuinely thought that England must be stuffed full of loads of people posh enough to have nannies like that to buy cards for . Never crossed my mind that it might mean Gran!

As for adults calling their parents Mummy and Daddy I think people would have been teased at my school for doing that but each to their own and it doesn’t strike me as particularly noteworthy. I love that our language and regional/class culture has so many different words for relatives.