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!

My oldest was around nine but he calls me, "Mom".
The middle child was also nine and he calls me, "Mum".
The youngest is 22 and she still calls me, "Mommy".

At around 9 mine went from mummy to my first name, so we skipped mum altogether.

💯 this! And Daddy is always daddy if you're 5 or 55! I kinda like it

Mama to DD 19m

Mummy in the house to 8yo DS

Mum outside the house (I hear him telling his teacher "my mum's here" at pick-up)

Sometimes I get "yes mother" in a very teenager style response, with a big grin

I'm gonna make the baby call me mama forever

My 2 year old daughter has already moved onto saying mum and dad. I blame Bluey on tv 😄.
She calls me mummy when she's trying to get something out of me though!

We are in NI btw

My Catholic mother refers to my granny as "my mummy" which I find weird. It sounds so childlike. I was always led to believe it was a Catholic thing here in NI.

I was brought up Protestant, though. 🤷🏽‍♀️

I'd be guilty of referring to "my ma and my da"

My mum would say to me "give your da a shout there and tell him his tea is ready"

My dad would say "what does your ma think?"

🤷🏽‍♀️

Think in Northern Ireland mummy and daddy is ok always 😂 mine interchange mum and mummy and dad and daddy.

Happy (and relieved) to see all the NI folk sticking with Mummy and Daddy! 35 years old and doubt I will ever call them anything else. Will admit that when I lived in England for Uni, those with an English accent saying Mummy/Daddy came across very posh.. in NI, with our accent, we definitely don't have that problem!

Well, unless you're from North Down maybe...

It's a pull push situation, Mum is seen as more grown up and some people don't want their children to grow up too fast, moving from Mummy to Mum is a sign that the outside world is having an influence on their child. Conversely Mummy can be seen by some as babyish and so there's a push there to move to Mum.

I always think of the upper classes using Mummy for longer, maybe because of going to boarding school at a young age. The King used 'Mummy' his whole life.

I've now graduated to wee mummy as he's miles taller than me. I like it. He is very proper and polite with his speech after years of speech therapy.

Dts are 11 and I get variations of

Mummy
Mumma
A nickname they have for me and

Yo, Bro!

In front of their mates it's mum that's started since the beginning of y7!

My mum in NI catholic and she refers to her latent a as mummy and daddy and it's how all my family there refer to their parents.

My kids in London are the only ones in their peer groups with a granny, everyone else has a nan/nanny.

I'm a mamma
My mum is nanna
Kids are 9 & 13

Oh they also call me bro or bruv on occasion! 🙄🤣