To not be 'Mummy'?

[Iamintwominds]

Dd is approaching one and there are some babbles of 'ma ma mama mama' which are cute.

Recently I have been thinking about this and I'm not altogether sure I want to be 'mummy.' I wondered if anyone else was known by their first name which is what I presume would replace Mummy?

Bottom line is that it's your kids who decide what they will call you. Mine have called me mummy and mum but most commonly, mama.

I have no idea where it comes from or why nor would it have been my first choice. But I kind of like the fact that it's what they are happy with.

DS calls me love

Your choice but it does seem a little cools and distant!

Only three people in this world can call me mummy.
Billions can call me by my first name.

Ah, anything but cool/distant.

Just don't like the sound of 'muuuummmeeee'!

My sister and I called our parents by their first names when we were little. When I was around 2 someone asked me "where's daddy" and apparently I looked around the room, confused, and pointed to the one man I didn't know! Think he was a bit
When my sister started primary school she heard "mummy" and "daddy" used a lot, cottoned on, and just started using it. I followed suit (aged 3) and we've never looked back. My parents didn't object to it, and accepted whatever we called them (including some rather unpleasant terms during our teens!)

So I think you should go with what makes you happy, but not ever prevent them calling you mummy, as that could be important to their sense of security and family at some point.

BTW, the babbles are interpreted differently in different cultures. Here we think mamammmaaamama is about Mummy. In Japan they think it's about food.

All of my children call me mum. DD went through a phase of calling me by my first name when she was around 15 but I've returned to being mum again. It just doesn't sit right with me with children calling their parents by their first name.

I absolutely agree rumple - wouldn't ban anything apart from shithead or similar haha!

It would jar for me personally, but if you want to be called by your first name, then do it horses for courses and all that.

I know children who call their parents by their first name. It's not going to be a big deal for them or you. Others (as you've seen!) may read more into it than there is but it's totally fine.

I like mummy myself, evidently so do most people, that is also fine.

Freedom people!! How lucky we are to have choices

I love being called mummy :) melts my heart. I call my own parents momma and pops.
Why dont you look at other languages and what they use for mum? Could be kinda funky

Whatever YOU decide your baby will find her own way so it's no use being too rigid about it.!

I hate Mummy but used it when DS was small. He never called me it. I was Mum then a mixture of Mum and my first name. Same with his Dad. I don't care but am surprised at how cats bum some of his friends parents are about it. The idea of being precious about him calling me Mum seems ludicrous to me. I'm still his Mum and he still refers me to his friends as his Mum. I like it when he uses my name. I'm so far from being some sort of hipster parent.

Sod what everyone else thinks, you get to choose what other people call you in every instance.

I once worked as a Nanny for a family where Granny was the matriarch.

She didn't want to be Gran/Nan/Grandma so she had a nickname that the children addressed her as.

Right so you don't like the sound of Muuuummmee type thing, so what's wrong with just "mum"? Because you are a Mum whether you like the words or not.

Love you PTA!

I genuinely don't think it matters let your DC call you whatever they want I only think it would matter if you forced it I.e if they called you mum and you said it's X not mummy. Or if you wang on to everyone about how your kids call you X not mummy. If you don't refer to yourself as mummy and nobody around you does then I expect your DC will call you by your first name just make sure they understand that when people say where's your mummy or who is your mummy they know that is you.

That was meant to read 'about him calling me my name'.

Just don't like it tinker.

Dd is my daughter but I don't call her Daughter!

Iamintwominds how do you refer to yourself when you speak to your DD? (just curious).

all mine call me by my first name- not by any intention, just never got in the habit of referring to selves as mummy/daddy

I thought this would be a lot more common, but it's not. That said, kids have never had a problem with it and neither have we

though think MIL thought a thing or two. But was MUCH too nice to say!

as for it being 'impersonal'- what could be more personal than being called by your name, rather than your job title

Whatever you want to do really. Your choice. My DS calls me Mama. Which is freaking brilliant.

I think the children choose what they call you. DD's always called me mum, no idea why not mummy but from even tiny, it's been mum. She knows my actual name and sometimes calls me it (especially if we're around other adults using my name), but she doesn't really use mummy.

The thing that really gets me is DH calling me mummy when DD is around. It really grates, I should say something

I don't think you'll get much of a say in it, especially when your DC go to school.