To be on the floor devastated

[TheSheepofWallSt]

That my only-just two year old has started to call me “mum” not “mummy”?

Happy to be handed a grip, because I’m ridiculously (very unusually for me) sad over this!

Just keep modelling Mummy for him when he says Mum... It may well be a short term thing.

Devasted ?
Why, am I missing something

I’m always mummy when I refer to myself, and when family/ friends talk to him.

He’s also started saying “what!?” When I call his name and “nutthin” when I ask him a question. He isnt getting this from me, and is corrected with “pardon” and requests for fuller explication, so can only assume when he’s at nursery, the toddlers I see at drop off and pick up, are actually secret teenagers, Tom Hanks in Big style...

Honestly- when people said “they grow up fast” ...

Ask family and friends (etc) to refer to you as mummy. My little one used to call my father "Gran" instead of Grandad. We didn't make a big deal out of it and just kept referring to him as Grandad. It worked itself out eventually.

Don't worry, they will go back to it. I was similarly gutted when DS started calling me Mum, but he's 6 now and interchanges it with mummy enough now to keep me appeased!

@Gardai

I think you’re being deliberately obtuse to claim to not understand, but I’ll bite.

Mummy is just a baby thing, isn’t it. Mum feels like the end of the baby era- before I’m quite ready.

My 19yo calls me "Muvvah" ( he sounds like something from a dodgy Krays film extra)

Calling you mum doesn't mean he loves you any less. Mine have always called me mum. Mum is nice.

Ohhh I like “Muvva” - although for me it’s also got strong shades of Amber Rose (who I q enjoy but definitely isn’t to everyone’s taste!)

What is wrong with him saying 'what'? Pardon is for burps/farts isn't it?

DS2 did about three months of calling me ‘mum’ soon after he turned 2. No idea where it came from, his older brother has always called me Mummy.

I had to act totally unbothered by it but I really didn’t like it. He went back to Mummy after a while, equally suddenly.

@thenightsky

It’s sullen.
“Sorry, what?”
“Pardon?”
“Excuse me?”

All vastly preferred in our house.

Devasted?
Why, am I missing something

Yes, an “a” and a “t”.

YANBU, I still like being 'mummy' and dread the inevitable graduation to 'mum'.

Don’t ask family and friends to call you mummy, that’s cringeworthy.
Hopefully it will just be short term.

“What?” is correct, people just think they sound posher using “pardon”.

Why on the floor though?

Oh dear I still use mummy sometimes and I am a lot and I mean a lot older than 2 I had no idea

“What?” is correct, people just think they sound posher using “pardon”.

Agreed: 'pardon' is for people who say 'serviette' and 'haitch'.

Oh, and DH and I are in an uneasy state of truce over what/pardon. I hate ‘pardon’. He was raised to believe the opposite - ie that ‘what’ is unforgivably rude.

We have agreed to stick to our own words and not correct the children.

Personal choice I know, but I never wanted to be called mummy. I don't know why. I know some people feel strongly about it, I remember a friend telling me that she and her husband just refused to respond to mum and dad and would only interact if their children called them mummy and daddy. But it never felt right for me personally.

@ForgetmelotS

It’s hyperbole.
I’m actually stood in my kitchen washing up, and am more mildly saddened than devastated

But that’s a lot longer and less self consciously melodramatic to write in a subject heading.

My youngest tried “mam” for a while. Autistic as he is, he managed to interpret the deathstare eventually and reverted to mum/my.

It’s sullen.

Utter rubbish. I had sympathy with you up to this point.

ffs