Dad/Mum

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I have just realised that I am so tired of hearing fathers described as 'dads' or mothers as 'mums'. I was discouraged from calling my parents mum and dad and called them Mummy and Daddy until D and M took over. I have never referred to either of them to other people except as 'my father', 'my mother' or 'my parents'. I really hate Mum and Dad.

That is absolute genius. 😂

I find Mother and Father a bit sinister. Reminds me of Bates Motel and people with parental fixation who are in permanent arrested development due to unhealthy relationships.

@AgnesX Its not just the spelling. Mummy is pronounced totally differently to Mammy. Same with Mum v Mam!

Not my own joke, unfortunately; it's a Milton Jones one!

I always found it weird in Enid Blyton books when children would call their parents Mother & Daddy.

Not Mummy & Daddy, nor Mother & Father. Why be 'formal' with one parent but not with the other?

One of mine has me saved in their phone as 'spawn point' 🤣

In Yorkshire its not unusual for a husband to refer to his wife as Mother.
I am Madre or Mother (usually if I am ignoring DS or have offended him in some way)

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i absolutely heard this to the “tune” in my head!

2 of my sons have done that to me!

I literally loath 'Mummy and Daddy'. Unless you are Irish (Mammy). Then I find it quite endearing.
We are Mum/Dad all the way.

This would have me in tears

we need the laughing emoji back just for that

My daughters have always called DH and me "Daddy" and "Mummy".
It does mean I'm never likely to get taken in by spam saying "Hi Mum, I've run out of money..."
I called my parents "Mummy and Daddy" and DH segued from "Mummy and Daddy" to "Mother and Father" at some random age.
I don't judge people who say "Mum and Dad" and I don't care if inverted snobs judge me or DH.
If someone I don't know wants to describe my relationship to my daughters I'd prefer "mother". Anything else is like using a personal name - only children of the person should use "Mummy/Mum" or "Daddy/Dad".

Honestly, my heart sinks every time!

Thank you - I still called my mother 'Mummy' until she died - I was 52. I don't care what other people think - that is how I was brought up and I despise 'Mum and Dad'.

My son called me lad! I would much prefer mum

Are you northern Irish? I find this is quite common there and have a few friends from portrush who used mummy & daddy

I used to work with a woman who called her parents mummy and daddy. It sounded ridiculous.

No half English/half French - not sure if that categorises me!!!

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One of my adult children called me mate once, I thought it was quite sweet.

It's up to what your parents want to be called.

I never called my parents mum and dad - I’m going to sound fairly ludicrous but they were Mummy and Daddy, then Ma and Pa, and then Mother and Father, which was less formal than it sounds as it started as a joke and stuck. By the time my mum died she was interchangeably Ma and Mother.

I don’t know how but DD morphed into calling us Mum and Dad when she was late primary school, and it really doesn’t bother me in the slightest though I always thought it would. She’s our baby even though she’s nearly 16 and whatever she calls me brings me joy, I really don’t care.

Surely it should have been maman and father or mother and papa then.

Alllllll wrong.

Is that what you call your parents? Which is which? 😂