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.

Call your parents, mum and Dad, Mummy and Daddy, mama and papa. Who cares and why is it anyone elses beeswax?

I find my 2 dear adult 2 sons call me and DH Mummy and Daddy when they want something, other times just Mum and Dad.

@musicposy

Like *@KittyMcKitty* I think it’s a parts of South East thing. We are still Mummy and Daddy to our young adult DC as are most of our friends to their teen/young adult DC. We are not all all unusual. I’ve never thought of it as childish; it’s just a name. It’s the norm in our family. My mother and grandmother both referred to their mothers as Mummy right through to old age.

In recent years, it’s morphed sometimes into Mother and Father which always sounds to me as though I’m living in a Jane Austen novel! I think they originally used it ironically and it’s stuck, but a few of their friends seem to do this too.

On DC2s phone we are referred to as Parental No 1 and Parental No 2. I was pleased to see I’m No 1

Same here, SE. We always called our parents Mummy/Daddy and my DC did too until recently. My DD19 still calls me Mummy but my DSs(teens) call me Mother

My Mother always called her parents Mummy and Daddy. My father called his parents Mother and Father. I think just what families do. I called my parents Mum and Daddy. I was a Daddy's girl.

I used the word pretentious because I was referring to those that aspire to be seen as posh (and a cut above the rest).

No inverse snobbery on my part, I have no problem with posh people's culture or other cultures that use the terms (Irish variants of Mummy and Nigerian culture are mentioned here).

I do laugh at those who adopt the names because they want to be seen as posh/high class (and better than you). What did Hyacinth Bucket call her parents?

I think families do what they do.

At 45 I address/refer to mine as either Mum/Dad or first names. Reverting to Mummy/Daddy would signal something stressful happening and a reversion to that more dependent childhood relationship.

My 12 and 14 (!) year olds both call me Mamma which apart from making me feel like I’m in a Chalet School book, is their choice. Think they use Mum to the outside world by now.

Aunt/Aunty is interesting. My brothers just married and I (slightly tongue in cheek) call his wife Aunty X to the kids. Aunt X would feel Victorian, Aunty feels like a friendly acknowledgment of her role in the family. Go figure.

I also grew up in the Midlands where any unrelated female was Aunty whatsit- the lady who cut our hair, the playgroup leader, the childminder.

I think its cringey, especially in public. My nephew is only a couple of years younger than me, and even now he has turned 50, still calls me Aunty Deadringer. even though he looks older than me

It's normal if you're Irish or posh.

My mother called her mother Mummy all her life. I call mine Ma or Mother

Upper class people / aristocracy / royalty don't use the word 'Nanny' because to them, a nanny is a person who looks after children for money. It's always been Granny or Grandmother in the families I've worked for, (never Grandma). Conversely though, in one of the most aristocratic families I've worked for, the mother had an absolutely stellar career, earning fantastic money. She was very no-nonsense, and her parents were definitely 'mum and dad'.

My mum is 'ma'. I am 64; she is 85.

@VainAbigail

I feel a bit similar to adults who call their grans ‘nanny’ or their aunts, ‘aunty’. I don’t know why, it just sounds childlike from an adult.

I feel like that whenever I call my granny 'Granny' to anyone else. Of course that's what I'll call her, because it's always been her chosen grandmother title, but it seems more adult to call her grandma or gran.

If I'm talking about her to anyone else I'll say 'my gran', but she will always be 'Granny' when I'm face to face with her.

With regards to my parents .. they've been mum and dad since I was very young, but I will admit to still using mummy and daddy if I want something hahaha.

I feel like that whenever I call my granny 'Granny' to anyone else. Of course that's what I'll call her, because it's always been her chosen grandmother title, but it seems more adult to call her grandma or gran.

Weirdly, I'm the opposite. I refer to her as my granny but when I phone her, I say "hi gran, it's Amused"

I say mummy and daddy (I'm from Belfast but living in England). Nothing odd or strange about it. Why would anyone else care what I call my parents?

My kids call their aunts and uncles by their first names to their face but sometimes use "uncle" (insert name) but never auntie unless joking about 1 uncle who we call (as a joke, and in private) auntie (insert BILs name)

My son, now 28, used to call me Momma when he was little. That later changed to Mummy but since he became a teenager I've hardly had an endearment! I can't even remember a 'Mum'. Sometimes he'll say 'Mater' !!!

My adult DD calls DH and I mummy and daddy but she has severe learning difficulties.

I’ll never forget the Queen turning to the queen mother when Windsor castle was on fire and saying something along the lines of
Oh mummy our lovely house is burning down.
She’d have been 60 plus at the time
I was a bit 😱

It’s Mum or Mum here.
Mother when we are taking the piss out of her.
Along with Nanny G (as in Nanny goat) and G-Ma.

I hate ma and I’m nana
Not nanny

Mum or dad occasionally Daddy-o.
But that more mockery.

I call my parents mummy and daddy. I'm not posh. But my mum is Irish, she called her parents mammy and daddy, I guess I just use the anglicised version for mammy 🤷🏻‍♀️

I do say mum and dad or maman and pa as well but my parents are really mummy and daddy. They refer to each other as mummy and daddy when talking to me. They are in my phone as mummy and daddy and I write cards to mummy and daddy.

If you don't like it, butt out and fuck off.

Ma and pa are posh. Mummy and daddy are Irish to my ear. Mummy and daddy in England are a bit ‘simple’/needy. ????

Should add only to my ear I don’t really judge but that’s what I thought when read thread title. .
Will butt out and fuck off now