Children calling CM 'Mum'

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Before I begin, I will just say I have a lot of respect for Cm, very positive relationship and feel very confident that she is the 'right' person to look after DS. BUUUUT, I have heard two of the other children call her 'mum', one 2yo and one 3yo. This makes me slightly uncomfortable and rings alarm bells for reasons I can't even put into words. Any cms out there? Is it normal practice? It's just that by 3 I would expect a child to know the difference between CM and mum and for the cm to gently correct any misunderstandings. I really do think the world of CM, AIBU to think it's a bit weird? The kids also refer to other family members as 'grandma' etc, which seems more acceptable to me. Probably stressing over nothing.

my twins come back from their dad's calling me Dad or Clare. It happens every time for a few hours till they adjust. They are seven! I don't bat an eyelid, cos I don't think making a fuss is neccessary... it switches back to mummy soon enough

Dd2 has never called her cm mummy (don't remember dd1 ever doing it either but that's a long time ago now), but some of the other mindees do by accident. She corrects them a few times but if they are still very young and learning to talk they can't always manage her proper name and she just responds to 'mummy' (however it is pronounced). I think most cms are pretty embarrassed when kids call them mummy tbh, it's not like they encourage it.

My cousin used to call me mummy when I babysat for her when I was 15, she was 3, so it got us a lot of funny looks when we were going out to the park etc.

I'm also called mum quite regularly by pupils at school. I have always said something about not being old enough to be their mum until one of my year 11s told me that actually I'm older than her mum :( I'm only 32, I really do not consider myself old enough to have a 16 year old, but there it goes, I obviously am.

"I'm a nanny, which means the lines are even more blurred as care is in the child's own home. I often get called mum, dad, name of sister, auntie, teacher.... slip ups happen. I correct immediately though, when my 4 year old charge says 'mum' accidentally to get my attention I say 'ahem' or 'what's my name?'"

Same situation here. I'm constantly called by other figures names, by all four of my charges (aged 2, 4 ,6 and 8!)

BertieBotts is right. These are very young children and haven't always worked out the difference between name and noun, iyswim.

I'm a childminder with a 3 year old DD. At one point, she was calling every other woman who came to the door "Mummy" because, to her, they were a Mummy. She now uses my first name because all the other children do.

I have nannied for my 5 year old charge for 3 years now and sometimes I get called Mum. I either wait until he says my name or laugh and say do I look like your mummy? Yes children know who their mum is but sometimes its a slip of the tongue or not actively thinking when answering/asking a question.

children often call me 'mum' and i'm their teacher. it means 'woman in charge'. but if she's encouraging it, i'd find it odd

That^^

Ds used to call me by his teacher's name too

If she is encouraging it, then it's a worry but sometimes it's a slip of the tongue. One girl at school once called our business studies teacher mum as a slip of the tongue and sometimes I've called friends mum because I''m thinking of my mum at that point.

Neither of my children have regularly done it to our childminder.

I'm a childminder and its entirely normal for a child to slip up and call me mum at times. Even the older ones do it if they are calling out and forget where they are for a minute.

I would only find it an issue if the CM was saying that they had to call her that - which is surely not the case?