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.

I'm not posh or pretentious and I call my parents my mummy or daddy I'm from a working class background. Deffo not a brat. I don't know if its cause of my accent or not but mum and dad sounds weird to me.

Yes @ifigoup I'm from NI too! Mum and dad sounds weird to me! Everyone i know either says Mammy and Daddy or Ma and Da 🤣

I suggested to my mother she might like to e called “Nanny” she informed she “was not a goat”
I am cooking supper. It’s chicken not toast.

I am neither posh nor pretentious but I called my dad daddy til the day he died. I would refer to him to others as my dad, but when I spoke to him he was my daddy, because that’s who he will always be to me 🤷‍♀️

@LolaSmiles
What threads discussing variation of language etc tend to show is that some people, such as yourself, can't comprehend that certain things have different associations to people, so instead of taking what could be an interesting anonymous discussion online at face value they have to start deciding people were little bitches at school.

Oh I dunno.

(a) a group of women are ridiculing a certain practice as weird, pretentious and childish
(b) most schools appear to have a group of girls ridiculing that same practice as weird, pretentious and childish

I don't think it's the world's greatest leap of imagination to deduce that those groups are probably the same people.

And I think it's hilarious that you've decided I'm the one who can't comprehend that things have different associations for people.

Funny how we never hear people talking about how "bairn" is vomit-inducing, or "barm" is pretentious, or "clarty" is weird, or "jitty" is childish.

It's only "mummy and daddy" which produces such ire, and I'd really like to know why.

merryhouse
But we do get the threads talking about how dialect features are just wrong (because, for example, they live in an area where people speak in standard English)

There was also a discussion where people had opinions on the word 'kids' and quite a few people were vocally against it.
We also get threads about people's dislike of the phrase 'picky bits' or picky tea.
Any time someone mentions 'mom' in a thread people ask if the OP is American because they don't seem to get that areas of the UK say mom and that's the norm in those areas.
Actually, last week there was one about the phrase fur babies too.

So, no it's not just mummy and daddy that people talk about.

Maybe everyone who talks about language use and phrases on the internet was one of those little bitches though 🙄.

Any time someone mentions 'mom' in a thread people ask if the OP is American because they don't seem to get that areas of the UK say mom

I have a confession to make.

I had no idea that anyone in the UK called their mum "mom" until I joined mumsnet

Ginfordinner
I only did when I met someone who used it. It's definitely not the norm around here.

As far as I can remember my parents have always been Mam and Dad although I know we used to call them Mammy and Daddy until around age 5...

DS called me Mammy till about age 4 then I've always been Mam. We live NE.

I don't think I've met anyone past age 10 who calls their parents Mummy and Daddy and to me it sounds childlike. I can't imagine my DH age 36 calling his Mam Mummy

Just read the previous poster mentioning buying cards and it gave me a giggle...

My Mam hates us buying cards with 'Mum or Mother' and my Nanna refuses to be referred to as Grandma or Grandmother as it 'sounds old' - (she is 84) trying to find cards which say Great Nanna is a task and a half

@BakewellGin1

Just read the previous poster mentioning buying cards and it gave me a giggle...

My Mam hates us buying cards with 'Mum or Mother' and my Nanna refuses to be referred to as Grandma or Grandmother as it 'sounds old' - (she is 84) trying to find cards which say Great Nanna is a task and a half

Moonpig is your friend- you can type in whatever title you want to their generic cards and they’ll send to you to post on or hand over.

My dd calls me Mother. I hate it but she's not for changing. It's all a bit Norman Bates 😂. We used to call my grandmother Nanny and got comments from my ancient Midlands based relatives that this was a goat related term.

@MillicentSmythFortescue I must be rich life but not money 😂 as I still call my parents mummy and daddy from time to time.. Depends what it is I'm trying to achieve with the conversation lol.

I would say who cares what people call their parents we just grateful to have parents we can call 😁