Evolution from Mummy to Mum - what age?

[MoggyMittens23]

I feel like we are at the point where Mummy is too babyish but Mum feels too grown up!

Yep teen dd were exactly same!

Sorry but madre / padre sounds dreadfully pretentious - don’t use that!

DS switched over at around 8-9. Bittersweet, because I used to find it so much harder to say no to him when it was mummy. 'Mu-uu-uuu-urm' has probably saved me a fortune over the years.

How old ? My youngest is 7 and still calls us mummy and daddy but I wonder if it should change .

My daughter is 2.5 and calls me mummy/mamma/mum (and my first name interchangably) 🤷‍♀️. We've only ever used mummy so I think she picks it up from the tv/friends.

Never if you’re Prince Harry.😜

seriously though, my parents INSISTED that we call them mummy and daddy (narcissistic ideas of status). Not allowed mum and dad (‘common, low class’, apparently). I hated it when at secondary school. So embarrassing. I now call my parents by their first names, so it sort of back fired.

My kids, mummy turned into mum in secondary school, sometimes still mummy at home, but I make a point of eg referring to their dad as ‘dad’ when I’m public, to not embarrass them. I really had horrible memories of the title ‘mummy’ because of my mum! I’m just glad my best mate at secondary was Irish, since she didn’t laugh at me because of it (as above, often an Irish thing, no ponceyness involved). Right, off to breathe 😆

I've never been "Mummy". Started off just using our first names but over the years "Mum and Dad" seems to have crept in.

Mine stopped naturally around 7/8, they started calling DH dad a bit earlier.

At the moment they’ve decided to call me ‘my Queen’ which is quite funny!!

DD stopped calling us mummy & daddy around 8. She still uses daddy sometimes.
DS1 is 5 and he corrects her sometimes “it’s not mum it’s mummy” ❤️ Firmly mummy & daddy there
DS2 is 3 and he’s called me mum for about a year 😂

Haha yes! I think this is why DD9 occasionally uses daddy. She knows it’s the sweetener!

Mine’s 25 and still calls me mummy-in an ironic way!

Depends on the situation, I'm called Mammy or Mam! If she's upset it's a
Mammy! I love it!

I'm 41, and I still say mummy and daddy as well as mum and dad (and Nana and Grandad!). My kids are 12 and 6, and they both call me mummy to my face, but 'my mum' when talking to someone else.

I'm a mix of mama, mummy, mum. Depending on how he feels I guess

I've left my kids calling me Mummy, they are 13, 12 and 7.
They do say Mum aswell.
I just have never told them to stop calling me Mummy and I won't.
My husband comes from a culture that says Mama, but that would sound strange for me to be called that after not ever being called that.

My 5 year old is just beginning to try out mum. Weirdly it makes me really sad. My six year old will be mummy for a long time. Possibly forever 😂he's autistic and says I'm mummy not mum

DD 14 mostly mum, mummy when she wants something, so I expect it to be around for a while yet!

I'm still Mummy (or our own personal variation of) to my 18 and 16 year olds. I think they refer to me as Mother in front of their friends. So their friends think we are posh now

My hulking big 17 ds still calls me mammy (northern) in private - which I think is hilarious in such a deep voice. However he uses it interchangeably with my name (that only my parents use) but in public I’m mam/mum.

I am either mummy or mummum. He's 6. Most of his class are still mummy/daddy.

I'm still 'Mammy' (Ireland) at home to some of my 3 DC, but increasingly my DSs call me by my name, which I quite like. My DD less so.

Using Mum or Mam sounds really unnatural

I still call my own mum Mammy (I'm 46). All my siblings do too.

My 8 year old has been calling me mum for donkeys', maybe because his older siblings do. I think they evolved out of it aged 7 or 8. Stepson refers to his mum as mummy 100% of the time when she is mentioned but not sure if he calls her that when speaking to, rather than about, her. He's nearly 8.

Late 40s and call DM a nickname I’ve had since childhood far too outing. But means she and only she responds.

Older ones call me mum in unguarded moments, otherwise it is "mother" or "muv", which I secretly love, like geezers calling each other "bruv" 😂

I’m mummy at home and ‘my mother’ at school. She’s 14. My mother I have called ‘Ma’ since my early 20’s graduating from mummy at home. Inherited linguistic tendencies much like what you call your evening meal.