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.

It makes me feel a bit sick when Jack Whitehall says it.

So you don't like "posh" people then? Do you think it's acceptable to dislike a whole group of people based on their upbringing?

And yes, I use mummy and daddy (and eat supper) when talking to them. Of taking g about them it's mother and father.

My parents are mum and dad to me, my 4 kids aged 20-12 call me variations on mummy, mother, madre- it’s up to them what they me tbh. Definitely a dinner household - supper’s a biscuit before bed

I call my mum mummy.

Yes I am posh. I'm not ashamed of it.

I'm aware people hate it and it grates on them. I don't really care, it's nothing to do with them and it's no reflection on me and my character.

I cannot imagine finding the head space to care what adults call their parents.

Quite.

I only call my dad daddy if I want something. Although when i do that he will reply by calling me daughter

Quite clear from this thread that if there’s no social reason why you shouldn’t judge someone, people judge their arses off. What harm? Why do you care what people call their parents, especially a term of endearment? I normally call my parents Mum or Dad but yesterday on FaceTime I referred to my Dad as Daddy and I’m not remotely ashamed of it. I live abroad and miss him and my Mum terribly.

My parents died early but even as an adult I called them Mummy and Daddy, and when I’m talking about them to my brother those are the names I still use. Definitely not a class thing for me - my mum was brought up in social housing and my dad in a two up two down slum house. We are Mancunians so a “breakfast, dinner and tea” family, and supper for us is a bit of cheese and biscuits about 9pm.

@Jennifer2r

I cannot imagine finding the head space to care what adults call their parents.

Quite.

I don't think anyone does in reality. It's only when the question comes up here that any thought is given to it.

Lots of inverse snobbery on this thread. If it were reversed it would be deemed totally unacceptable.

Yes OP. I'm looking at you.

I cringe when I hear an adult say this.

I'm from the South East, am married to a Northumbrian and live in Yorkshire. I know no-one over the age of six who says mummy and daddy.

It sounds very affected and pretentious round here to hear an adult call their parents mummy and daddy.

In the North East it is mam and dad in the South East and round here it is mum and dad.

@HalloweenIsEveryday assume you don't mind if I cringe when I hear mum and dad then?

No, not normal to me.

I call mine that, I’m 43. If I’m talking about them I refer the them as my mum and dad though.

@HalloweenIsEveryday

I cringe when I hear an adult say this.

Me too, unless in Ireland, it sounds so infantile.

My dad’s younger than my mother so I call them Harold and Maude.

For all the people saying that it's so sweet and endearing when Irish people do this, has it occurred to you that there might be posh people in Ireland too? It does seem popular with children of farming folk in Ireland, but as an urban dweller, Mummy/Mammy and Daddy is a bit cringe to me, and I'm Irish. My rich friend (boarding school, family owns an estate) calls her parents Mummy/Daddy alright and she's Irish too.

I’m in the south east and the only people I know who call their parents mummy and daddy are posh. I am working class and have called my parents mum and dad since I was 7 as have most of my friends. My children call me mum unless they want something then it’s a drawn out “mummy”. My youngest who’s now 10 has always called me mama which I hate but can’t seem to get him to stop.

I come from the NE and the first time I heard a grown woman call another woman "mummy" was on the platform at Bath train station. I felt such a reaction to it.

I feel a bit similar to adults who call their grans ‘nanny’ or their aunts, ‘aunty’. but everyone knows what it means to say 'aunt' rather than 'auntie'

I called my father Daddy until he died. We stopped calling my mother Mummy in our teens and started calling her Mother.
Not posh. I love hearing Irish people call parents Mummy and Dadddy.

I fully accept it sounds unusual to me because I didn't grow up with it said as adults. I generally heard Mamgu or Nain , I call dm mum and df dad. It sounds infantilising to my ear but maybe that's simply because I'm not used to it?

It also doesn't help the only people I've heard do it personally happen also to be the faux wide eyed passive aggressive type so that colours my view.

Ultimately it's got bugger all to do with me if it makes them happy

Regional isn't it? Felt odd to my English ears when I heard my 45 year old Scots/Irish brother in law call his 80 year old father 'Daddy'. Odd but endearing.

My mum has always been Mummy and I expect she will be until I die 😂

I’m not particularly posh, been financially independent since I was 18 (actual lols at that poster) have dinner not supper, and still call my parents Mummy & Daddy at 47, as does my sister at 49. Scottish, if that makes a difference (do I get the Celtic cuteness exemption? ).

And you know what, at 47, I’m bloody thankful that I’ve still got them both to be able to call them anything! It’s what they prefer, and I’m fine with that. I cringed for a couple of years in my teens, but I got over it. Who cares?