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Original poster

To be on the floor devastated

281 replies

TheSheepofWallSt · 01/12/2018 20:57

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!

OP posts:
Spiderdemon · 01/12/2018 21:13

Pardon is dead common innit.

DistanceCall · 01/12/2018 21:13

Some people's children never make it to adulthood.

Sorry, I know that's not what you want to hear. But growing up is not a bad thing. I think you need to remember that.

midsomermurderess · 01/12/2018 21:14

Frankly, I prefer 'what' to 'pardon', it so very mincingly 1950s lower middle class.

GlassSuppers · 01/12/2018 21:14

My DD aged 2.5 has recently taken to calling me "parent"
I correct her and ask if she meant to say mummy to which she shakes her head and says "no parent."
It could be worse OP Wink

Smellbellina · 01/12/2018 21:15

@DrDiva 😂

CarrieBlu · 01/12/2018 21:15

My two year old has taken to shouting “Maaaam! Mam! Mam!” at me. I have no idea why a) she’s stopped saying Mummy and b) why she’s pronouncing Mum as Mam. No one else in our family or circle of friends pronounces it like that. But I’m just letting her find her way, I’m sure she’ll go back to calling me Mummy at some point.

Ofthread · 01/12/2018 21:15

Don't mention pardon!

Original poster
TheSheepofWallSt · 01/12/2018 21:17

Dear me

I’m actually as working class as they come. No delusions of middle class grandeur here, so don’t worry about a prole trying to get above themselves, trouncers of the pardon!

Also- I don’t really use “pardon” myself- but explaining to a 2 year old child the nuances of “sorry” when attached to “sorry what?” , when getting him to say sorry to other children for bashing, taking toys and being a general playground dictator, seemed to hard.

So I went with Pardon.
Promise I won’t let him lapse into serviettes or haitches Hmm

As you were!

OP posts:
SleepySofa · 01/12/2018 21:17

DS (just turned four) does this sometimes. I’m ashamed to say I correct him..

Scissor · 01/12/2018 21:21

I'm still mummy, she's only 263 months.

Original poster
TheSheepofWallSt · 01/12/2018 21:21

Oh and now a grammar mistake ...

Too not to

DM just called to say her cat has been killed so probably won’t be back here for a while.

Enjoy the nitpicking!

OP posts:
Eliza9917 · 01/12/2018 21:22

What is wrong with serviettes? They are what you get in cafes and McDonalds etc.

Obviously a napkin is a napkin that you get in a restaurant.

Or is the problem with people that call napkins serviettes?

TheFuckfaceWhisperer · 01/12/2018 21:23

My DD still calls my mummy when she wants something. Or sometimes mamma. She’s 28 now...

Bestseller · 01/12/2018 21:24

I have learned recently on MN that "pardon" is common and "what" is correct. I still cant bring myself to say it though. I use "sorry?"

When I worked in an infant school we had one parent who would introduce herself as "Sophie's mummy" (not her real name). Dont be like her.

InfiniteVariety · 01/12/2018 21:25

DD1 went through a phase age 4 of calling us by our names instead of mummy & daddy! The less attention you give it, the quicker it comes to an end....

And as a teenager, DD2 used to say "Ja Mutti" in a voice heavy with irony whenever I was trying to lay down the law about anything (she did well in GCSE German)

Iloveautumnleaves · 01/12/2018 21:26

Practice your deathstare. You’ll get MANY years use out of a good one.

When he says Mum, just say ‘Mummy’ and wait until he repeats it. He will.

When my friends kids were about 7 &9 they started calling her Mummmaaaa in whiney baby voices). God it grates like nails down a chalk board.

Mummy is lovely, don’t let him lose it yet!

BollocksToBrexit · 01/12/2018 21:27

YANBU

My DS is 5 and has never called me mummy or mum. Sad He's always used my first name.

Iloveautumnleaves · 01/12/2018 21:29

Cross posted with you. I’m really sorry to hear about your mum’s cat 🌷

Asthenia · 01/12/2018 21:32

‘What’ sounds really rude to me! I always say pardon, or sorry, but certainly not ‘haitch’!

ChodeofChodeHall · 01/12/2018 21:32

This has reminded me of the woman who started a thread a while back... She went to great lengths to prevent her kids from discovering her first name: all adults had to call her 'Mummy' or 'Mrs So-and-So'.

Laloup1 · 01/12/2018 21:32

Ffs it could be worse. At 18 months my boyfriend’s daughter tried to start calling me mum. So imagine your daughter doing that and hopefully that gives you perspective !
(I gently steered her away, not that it’s relevant to this thread)
YABU

UterusUterusGhali · 01/12/2018 21:33

My eldest has always used my actual name too.

The youngest has started doing it if I refuse him biscuits/cake/sweets though. He's says I'm no longer his mother and makes a point of talking to me in this faux civil manner. Hmm He's 8 ffs.

Wannabeyorkshirelass · 01/12/2018 21:37

'What' is not polite the way kids say it.

ForgetMeLots · 01/12/2018 21:38

It is sad about the cat.

Bluerussian · 01/12/2018 21:41

Normal.