At what age is it cringey to refer to your parents as "mummy and daddy"?

[MamaG]

My nephew is 21

DH and I cringe every time

His younger brother doesn't (too cool, no doubt)

Unless they are MY children

I was thinking about this the other day, because I always thought it was posh people who did it and a bit cringey to call your parents mummy and daddy when you're an adult yourself, but then I realised I do call my dad "daddy" when I'm talking to him So now I'm not so sure as I am definitely not posh and I didn't think I was a cringe-worthy sort of person... [super-confused]

I tell mine - you can't call me Mum until you've got all your big teeth!

I use mum and ad and have since I was 13ish.
However if I want a favour I revert to mummy or daddy.

DH calls his parents by name and always has, which I find a little odd. They also refuse to be called grandma or grandad or any such variable and insist the DC's call them by name.

Is nobody going to pick up on my casual mention that today is my birthday.

Oh you are all so ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude

ds1 stills calls me mummy and he's ten though he refers to me as mum in front of his friends. I'm certainly not going to tell him he's too old I'm sure it will change at some point.

Happy birthday Slub

Wouldn't bother me if my dcs wanted to call me by my name. I certainly don't mind that my nieces and newphews don't called me Aunty X, just call me by my first name.

Thank you Colditz

I call my parents 'granny' and 'grandad', it winds them up no end!

mostly it is mum and dad, if we want something from our parents we use mummy and daddy though.

My youngest sis always uses 'dadddddyyyyyyyyy'

It works a treat, she is spoilt rotten

I have reverted to calling my parents mummy and daddy, sometimes. But only when I'm talking to them, not when referring to them.

When I was at uni, one of my (lovely!) friends would have conversations with his mother where they both referred to his father as "daddy". It jarred!

I think its a posh or maybe a southern thing. I had this lovely attractive and sexy boyfriend in my 20's. When he took me home to meet his parents though and called them 'mummy' and 'daddy', well I'm afriad to say the passion died there and then! I think its ok for women just not men TBH.

As GooseyLoosey said, in Northern Ireland everyone says mummy and daddy.

All who call Mummy & Daddy = weirdos

I was at a talk given by Antonia Fraser last year and her son Orlando, who is a forty-something year old barrister kept prompting her thusly: 'Muuuummaay, tell them about the time you...'
I kept wanting to snigger but did manage to keep a straight face.
Until the mad cat lady in the audience piped up to tell La Fraser how passionately she admired her. 'And your husbands....both of them.'
I totally lost it at that point and had to press DH's hankie into service to conceal my mirth.

my ds 10 calls me mum
dd 7 calls me mummy
and ds 20mths calls me mumma"cant stand that one"

i call my father daddy

dont call my mother mummy though... probably cause she walkd out when i was a teenager and havent really considered her a mummy since then

My Daddy was my Daddy until the day he died, I still have my Mummy - I am over 40 and I don't have £1 million in a trust fund, maybe I am just strange....

DD calls us either Mummy, Daddy or Mama and Dada and she is 5 years old.

Oh Rosa that reminded me of a fabulous standup coming-out story ... can't remember name of comic, but story goes he's at a wedding (his mother's there too), it's all a bit over-champagned & he decides This is the Moment and announces to her "Muummmay ... I'm gaey" and she says "Oh darling I've had enough too, you can give me a lift"

(You have to say it out loud. In Orlando's voice.)

My Ds is 3 and has started calling me mam and DH dad...very common

DD1 21 still calls us Mummy and Daddy some of the time and I don't have a problem with that.DD218 and DD3 16 always call us Mum and Dad. I think it depends on apersons personality and isn't cringy.

I'm 45 and still sometimes call them mummy and daddy!
So do my sisters (ages 48, 44 and 39!). We just never got round to calling them mum and dad.
My dad doesn't mind he says it gives the impression that he is stinking rich

I'm 26 and my dad is daddy all the time, dad if i want something and mum is just mum. its just the way we are and my dad would think it strange if i called him dad all the time.

I still called them Mummy and Daddy but she died when I was 17 and he died when I was 37. I didn't refer to them as that to other people, just to their face(s). I didn't see a problem with it. It's what I had always called them and it wouldn't have felt right to change it. I am quite a nostalgic person and non-comformist too. Don't tell me it's childish or weird to call them what I want! Mind your own business!

MILs sister called her mother 'mummy' and she is 60, and Grandma was 98. She also referred to her as 'mummy' at the funeral this year.

I call my mum 'mum', but may write 'Mummy' in a card. I went through a stage of calling her the aged parent when I was in my teens. Can't remember what I'd been reading at school...Great Expectations maybe.

Dad was always Dad, or you bastard when he walked out on Mum. He died when he was 60, so he's now referred to as the late unlamented, or the dear departed.