Child embarrassed by me

[purpleme12]

My child said she'd rather her daddy come to the high school open evenings not me
Because 'i don't look like other mummys because I I'm short and look like a teenage but I don't dress like a teenager'
And will people will stare at me

I think she was half serious! 😕

Anyone else's kid said anything like this?

People really don't stare at me 😂
I'm not really skinny or really fat 😂

Why is there a pile on haranguing OP about the word daddy ffs.

How sad for you.
There is not a legal age limit. Many kids will say mummy at home but mum in public.

Posters are being really weird.

Gets like this at night sometimes. Just ignore it @purpleme12

Kids of that age are usually embarrassed by their parents. To them we are just not cool pets to have. It's normal teenage behaviour.

I guess it is a case of picking your battles really. I pulled mine up if they were actually rude (I think your DD was certainly insensitive) but otherwise ignored them. Otherwise, if they wanted to go off around town without me then I let them go (safe and traffic free area). That way we all got our freedom.

So what is the point of the post then?

Please stop her saying mummy and daddy

She will be bullied in high school for that

Please see above posts for answers to both your posts.

If you don't see the point in the thread yourself, it's fine to just ignore it

Well, tbf you posted here asking for opinions and that's what you got.

She does sound, from this post to be quite rude or if not rude then unaware of social niceties and worryingly young for her age. I don't know any kids over 9 who still say mummy and from what you write her speech sounds more appropriate for a child of 7 or 8.

Parents are pretty much universally embarrassing for teenagers but they should have the empathy and social skills by that age not to say so. I'd be having the 'manners and appreciation' chat with mine if they spoke to me like that. Its hurtful and just not on.

And not even teen if it's high school open days, she's 10 or 12 at most. I just assumed OP was posh

Op is sad about what her kid said and is asking other people for similar stories, likely to reassure herself it's nornal. It's not that complicated.

OP and her child are perfectly normal and vast majority of posters are absolutely unhinged.

The more OP doesn’t take you all on the more erratic you become. Definitely more embarrassing than a little girl using the word mummy.

Strange to see all these PPs calling a kid rude for saying what was bothering her when prompted by her mother to do so…yet insistent that the child should address her mother using a name the mother doesn’t seem to have chosen.

I found my parents embarrassing when I was a teen. I still called them mummy and daddy both in private and in front of my friends (though I’d always have referred to them as mum and dad if they weren’t there) because that was their preference and it’s polite to address people as they prefer.

I think op it was just unusual,

firstly kids don’t usually say mummy and daddy, other mummies unless very young or upper class. But even then the parent doesn’t tend to repeat it and use those terms too.

secondly teenagers come in all different heights, as the teen years go from 13 to 19, a full blown adult.

thirdly teens tend to wear what many adults do, be it jeans, leggings, hoodie, whatever.

Lastly, unless you are a little person, and even then your child would be used to your height, and I guess you’d say that if you were, then being 5ft or whatever is not unusual. The average woman is 5ft2.

so it didn’t really make any sense on any front. I think that’s why everyone reacted.

kids get embarassed by many things. From your hair to your dress sense. But seldom what you posted, why his clumsy at best, and seldom do parents repeat and say mummy and daddy when their kid is this age.

It's a class thing in the UK. The upper classes universally call their parents mummy and daddy their whole lives.

As a member of the underclass I, of course, stopped saying mummy and daddy before I could talk.

Is she autistic OP? If so then that explains the way she speaks and expecting a mum to look a certain way.
I'd be torn on going, it would be good for her to see that everybody doesn't stare at you but at the same time i wouldn't want her to feel self conscious because i was there.

Laughing at the thought of us as upper class 😂

She doesn't fit most of the autism things

What your DD said was offensive and under no circumstances should you tolerate this, she needs a reprimand, for rudeness and prejudice.

Ok

My DC are constantly embarrassed by me, as I was by my parents 🤣 It's the way of the world.

Ds1 is nearly 16 & starting to not be that way so much. He still does - and always has- call us Mummy & Daddy. To his friends he talks about Mum & Dad. No SEN, popular, bright. His choice either way & we embrace it.

Oh please. Don't take yourself so serious.

Oh cmon. Don’t be silly.