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To wonder when they stop calling you mummy?

121 replies

Namechangedbecauseiwantto · 04/03/2019 20:33

As title really, what age did your children stop calling you Mummy?

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yolofish · 04/03/2019 20:57

aw, I love Mummy! but then I get called all sorts by my now adult DDs: Madre, Mamoushka, Mummy, Mum, FFS OMG how could you?! I answer to them all. Similarly DH is Dad, Daddy, Padre...

RainbowMum11 · 04/03/2019 20:57

DD5 will write Mum to 'save the letters'!
Generally mummy, mum-mum or mum though.

Echobelly · 04/03/2019 20:57

About 6 for DD and nearer 5 for her younger brother. We both loved graduating to 'Mum' and 'Dad' Smile

fblake · 04/03/2019 20:58

My DS started calling me Mum from the age of 3, only Mummy when he was ill or something ☹️

fleshmarketclose · 04/03/2019 21:00

Dd 16 still calls us mummy and daddy, adult dd calls us mum and daddy, adult son calls us mutt or mutty and dad other adult son calls us mum and dat. I tend to answer to anything tbh.

CoachBombay · 04/03/2019 21:05

DS is 4 mummy and daddy still going strong in this house. He's never called me mam or mum. But then seen as we are 4 generations in our house it would get confusing if he didn't .

I'm mummy to DS, I call my mother "mam" and my mother calls my grandmother "Mum" .

DS just shouts "nanny" and one or other will answer to him, he does however favour his great grandmother over us all, but she spoils him so that's why 😂

muchprefersummer · 04/03/2019 21:05

DS11 still calls me mummy most of the time. Refers to me as mum when talking to his friends. It's strange, he went through a stage around 5 calling me mum. I didn't mind but somehow it's reverted back to mummy and remained.

Minxmumma · 04/03/2019 21:06

My eldest 3 - 22, 16, 16 went from Mummy to Mum to MUM and back to Mummy......

No idea why. It's kind of nice. They don't care where we are or who is there, it's always Mummy.

PepperSteak · 04/03/2019 21:07

Me and DH are both nearing 30 and still call our mums Mummy. I love it but he’s really embarrassed but can’t break the habit.

Tiredofit · 04/03/2019 21:07

DS1 (23) calls me Mummy, DS3 (12) calls me Mumma and DS2 (21) calls me Mum.

birdsdestiny · 04/03/2019 21:08

This thread has been quite reassuring, I had occassionally worried that Ds 14 was too old for mummy, he doesn't call me anything in front of his friends I don't think!

dontcallmelen · 04/03/2019 21:11

My dd is thirty three & still calls me Mummy & Dh Daddy, sometimes calls me the Mothership.

BirdieInTheHand · 04/03/2019 21:11

My teens call me mummy although do slip into mama and mother (with tongue firmly in cheek) in company

MeowthThatsRight · 04/03/2019 21:16

I’ve always preferred ‘mum’. Mummy just always makes me think of someone like Jacob Rees-Mogg saying it which makes me feel icky.

thaegumathteth · 04/03/2019 21:16

Ds 12 still calls me mummy at home

sugarbum · 04/03/2019 21:20

My eldest just turned 12. I'm nummy at home. Mum in public.
My youngest is 9 and calls me mother, mama or sugarbum (as in my first name not actually sugarbum, which is the nickname my dad had for me) I never asked him to call me any of those things!

ValleyoftheHorses · 04/03/2019 21:22

I am 41 and call my mum “Mummy “ to her face but if talking about her I say my mum.
I waited a long time to be Mummy and want it for as long as possible.
However DS is 6 and either calls me Mumma or babe at the moment Hmm

TheCraicDealer · 04/03/2019 21:26

I'm 30 and I still call my parents Mummy and Daddy at times- am N Irish though. DH is from the East Midlands and still calls his Mum Momma (said like Mummah but he insists it's spelt with an "o") despite reaching the advanced age of 34.

leiaskye · 04/03/2019 21:28

DD8 & 11 both still call me mummy.

Not in company when it comes to the eldest though, & I make sure I say Dad when talking about him to her when her friends are there.

bialystockandbloom · 04/03/2019 21:29

Ds changed to mum when he was about 8 or 9. Dd is 9 now and still calls me mummy - says she won't ever switch to mum. I might hold her to that in front of her friends when she's 14 mwahahaha Grin

WhiteWine4TheLady · 04/03/2019 21:31

14 (although has autism) and 10, and they are positively enraged if I call myself ‘Mum’. I’m MUMMY, apparently.

I called my mother Mum from about 7, so it seems babyish to me, but ...it’s cute I suppose. I don’t conplain Grin.

PrismGuile · 04/03/2019 21:35

23 and still call my mum mummy (not posh, promise).

My mum got upset the one time I tried and I just decided id rather make her happy. Sister calls her mummy too.

PrismGuile · 04/03/2019 21:35

Though I reference I call her mum, but as a name it's mummy

WineIsMyCarb · 04/03/2019 21:37

My DSis's and I (early 30s) still call our Mum Mummy! We went through a long 'Mum' stage (entering secondary school til mid 20s) but went back to varying degrees. Middle DSis calls Our Mother 'Mummy' all the time.

Boomerang!

mathanxiety · 04/03/2019 21:38

I am still Mommy. DCs are 17 - 28.

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