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To wonder when they stop calling you mummy?

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Namechangedbecauseiwantto · 04/03/2019 20:33

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

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Camomila · 05/03/2019 13:17

DS is coming up to 3 and usually calls me by my first name or mamma.

He refers to me as my mummy to other people though.

MrsMcW · 05/03/2019 13:22

I'm 30 and still call my mother Mummy, as do several of my friends to their mothers. Maybe it's just a regional variance but I've never considered it abnormal?

Genderwitched · 05/03/2019 13:34

I call my mother by her name and have done as long as I can remember and so do my DC.

DS15 calls me Mum and DD20 calls me Mummy or some stupid name that she's just made up, the latest being Mumulade like marmalade. They both like it when they call me Bum and I answer to it!!

MyBootsAreMuddy · 05/03/2019 13:36

I've never been called mum. My eldest is 19, I've always been mummy, mother, mater(started by eldest when she was 12) or ducky( started as a joke by ds1 who at 10 started calling me 'mother duck', and it's just stuck so now all my dc call me ducky).
DH calls his DM mummy or mother.

Blobby10 · 05/03/2019 13:42

Mine still call me mummy at home and they are all adult! I still call my parents mummy and daddy because that's what I have always called them. If talking about them to other people I use Mum and Dad and my kids call me Mum in public!

Dontsweatthelittlestuff · 05/03/2019 13:45

Mine are adults now but never called me mummy. My eldest has always called me mum and for some unknown reason my youngest calls me Ma.

drspouse · 06/03/2019 22:25

My now-4-yo tried when she was nearly 3. Such a cheeky look too.

The 7 yo uses our first names to be funny or "your wife" "your husband" to DH and me about each other.

iolaus · 06/03/2019 22:32

The vast majority of the time mine don't (aged 18 - 8), I think it was around 6 they changed

Very occasionally it still slips out (and I admit I was in my late 30s and about to have a general anaesthetic and went back to mummy/daddy)

dancinginthekitchen · 06/03/2019 22:35

My eldest is 33 has migrated mummy over the years and now calls me Mummo, middle one (30) and youngest (27) still call me mummy - well, to my face anyway Smile

TrendyNorthLondonTeen · 06/03/2019 22:37

I have never ever called my mum "mummy". Apparently I used to refer to her as "mother" and then graduated to mum. Something about "mummy" is just so... twee.

Japanesejazz · 06/03/2019 22:44

Not yet. 25 and 18. Mummy when they talk to me, mother when referring to me. Their father is referred to as sperm donor

tattooq · 06/03/2019 22:47

I still call my parents mummy and daddy, and I'm 24. Plenty of my friends are the same. I remember seeing a middle aged woman pushing her elderly mother round a Ralph Lauren shop and she kept calling her mummy, I thought it was really sweet. I hope DD never stops calling me mummy

MaryBoBary · 06/03/2019 22:52

My 3 year old has just recently started preschool, and is testing out the word mum which he must have picked up there. But I tell him I prefer him calling me mummy. I think he’s just using mum occasionally to see my reaction at the moment

anxiousbean · 06/03/2019 23:06

Older teen switched to Mum at about 11 or 12. Other is 13 and corrects me if I refer to Mum or Dad as we are definitely still Mummy and Daddy. Love it because he is so affectionate but bit worried as I also have the slight Jacob Ress_Mogg horror feeling re adult children calling a parent Mummy. I call my mum Mum so love the word. Can remember her getting very upset when we stopped calling her Mummy (guilt) but she always wanted us to be posher than we were and I think I rebelled

DelilahfromDenmark · 07/03/2019 14:16

My MIL still signs herself Mummy on cards. My husband calls her Mum thankfully. Not sure I could have married a man who called his mother Mummy in his mid 30s.
Generally in the UK the posher you are, the longer you call your parents Mummy and Daddy. I have a few friends who still do and I do slightly cringe when I hear it. However each to her own and all that.

MeowthThatsRight · 07/03/2019 20:13

delilah my mil signs herself as ‘mummy’ on cards to me but as ‘mum’ on cards to my dh Confused.

I think generally the posher people are the longer they call them mummy and daddy. Some of the uber posh people I know call their parents things like Bunty and Hoots.

Cloudtree · 07/03/2019 20:15

11 and 13 and still call me mummy. "Mother" in front of their friends though

SunburstsOrMarbleHalls · 07/03/2019 20:35

DD stopped at 3 but started again while away at uni as most of her friends called their parents mummy she still uses it now at 22. DS16 hates it and insists I am mum and tells his sister to stop being weird.

I don't mind either.

chaoscategorised · 07/03/2019 20:44

Oh god, adults calling their parents mummy/daddy gives me the creeps 😂 I apparently went through calling mine mummy, then a phase of calling her by her name, then mum from about 6. If I'm taking the piss now I'll call her mumsy, which she hates.

BentNeckLady · 07/03/2019 20:47

14 and ten and still calling me Mummy

DerbyRacer · 07/03/2019 20:55

My ds stopped calling me mummy when he was 7.

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