to want to tell DD not to call me "Mummy"?

[GiserableMitt]

She's coming up 13 and has been calling me "Mum" for years; DS who's 7 also calls me Mum.

Recently she's started calling me "Mummy", not at home (very often) but in public and on Facebook.

She has a friend who does this, and with both of them it's usually "Thank you, Mummy" in a sickly-sweet voice whilst going all wide-eyed and "coy".

It makes my fucking teeth itch. Do I just let her get on with it and hope it passes or should I tell her I find it irritating and ask her not to do it?

There's a big difference between a DC (of any age) calling DP mummy or daddy all of the time and what OP is saying.
"Thank you, Mummy" in a sickly-sweet voice whilst going all wide-eyed and "coy". This is disrespectful and is bit of a p* take.
It's not the same as a person saying it as term of affection, my friend's mum (67) calls her 90 year old dad "daddy" as she always has.

She is taking the p but is 13 so understandable. I still call my mum mummy! My ds is 17 and calls me mum or mother if annoyed

I think that people are missing the point entirely! She has done it to irritate and 'put down' OP. It is very different as explained by Kitty.

It is not really a put down it is a teenage p take.

I have seen posts of FB where ds has said things like 'Mother has said no!' referring to me and my 'unreasonable rules'.

i would ignore it infront of her friend then bring it up later as someone suggested. it sounds to me like she is just copying off her friend? but i can see why you would find this annoying. i don't like "mummy" i train mine to say mum instead from the start. something about mummy and daddy just makes me feel a bit urgh.

mine only do it when they want something or done something they are teens too , So i get i love you mummy followed by can i have : ) Id ignore it till it passes ,

I like picassostoenails suggestion, OP.

Ruffle hair, Eskimo kiss and call her babykins! Never admit your teeth itch! Never never never. I was a PITA teen and my biggest pain was not being able ruffle Ma! Argh! Now I know

I can't call her Babykins, that's what I call DS! :o

I would ignore it tbh, wether it is silly game playing, sarcasm or just playing silly. Is it such a big deal? it seems qiuet the norm on FB for kids to show their embarrasment of parents by commenting using mummy and if they are making arrangements etc, its normaly "the rents" said no or ill have to ask "the rents". I find it quite funny tbh, a comical little glimps into teanage culture.

Call her baby-waby or fwuffy-knickers and ask if she's got her vest on, where her friends can hear you, in a sickly sweet voice. That should do the trick.

When my brother was 13 he started calling my Dad "Dave"

Its not even his name

I would leave it for now...teen fads change fast! :)

PMSL @ dave

I also PMSL @ Dave!

YABU DD1 24 and DD2 21 both call me Mummy sometimes.

Meant to add it's mostly when they haven't spoken to me for a while or they are asking me if I want something. They do usually call me Mum.

She's found a relatively harmless way to express a bit of silliness (because face it, there's far more awful ways for teens to "express" themselves). Diffuse the situation and call her sweetypops or something equally cutesy in front of her friends. It'll either become a standing joke or she'll cringe so much that she'll soon give up.

DS1 ( who's 13 ) comes out with " I say, Mummsy ... " in a daft 1940's radio announcer voice when he's about to ask for something really outrageous. It cracks me up!

I tend to respond with " Who gave you permission to speak, Feckless Major ... " or something like that. I bet if you start replying " You're welcome, Snookywookums ... " she'll knock it on the head.