To ask when kids stop calling you Mummy and Daddy and say Mum and Dad?

[Elmo27]

My DS is 7, 8 in January. We are very much still Mummy and Daddy. I love being Mummy because in so many ways he is growing up and I’m really noticing it all the more how mature and independent he is becoming since he started the juniors. But I notice that his friends say Mum and Dad, as do my friends kids, some of which are younger.

I remember my Dad not wanting me to stop calling him Daddy (he was a single Dad) and I got to an age (maybe around 7 or 8) where I felt embarrassed by it and I remember other kids making fun of me for it too until he eventually relented!

Maybe kids aren’t as mean as they were in the 90s but I just have been wondering. I asked DS if he wanted to call us Mum and Dad and if he did that was fine but he said he doesn’t want to.

What she did yours start saying Mum and Dad?

I think switching is weird 🤷🏽‍♀️

In public tho it’s mum or first name!

I'm still Mummy to my teens and sometimes bro'. They refer to me as Mum to their friends. I don't remember ever calling my mother Mummy, but she called my grandma and grandad Mummy and Daddy until they died, and so did her siblings.

Mine is 26 and still calls me Mummy. Their choice.

My daughter is 15.
She's called me many varieties over the years.
I was "Mother" when she was around age 4 (thanks to lovely old fashioned My Naughty Little Sister books).
But she's gone through pretty much all the versions.
Currently I am a mixture of Mama, Mom (fake American accent - not Birmingham one) and Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum.

It's totally a class thing. Posh people never stop saying Mummy.

My 9-year-old calls me mum mostly, but I get the odd mummy. Dad is always dad.

Posh people never stop saying Mummy

We must be scum 😂My 3 yo has been calling me Mum for a while.

15 yo calls me mammy still! 11 yo says mammy, 13 yo says mammy, 8 yo says mammy … hold on a second🤔😅 I actually had the ‘do you want to call me mum’ talk at about 11 with the two older boys and it just never took. They’ve called me mammy in front of their friends as far as I recall too!

We're still mummy & daddy to 16 yr old dd.
13 yr old ds has recently made the switch to mum & dad..😢

My boy has just turned 6 and he's pretty much stopped staying mummy. My names Emma and he has started calling me Ems which he finds hilarious

Depending on my DD's mood it veers between mum, mummy, bruh and queen. She's 9

My 17, 16 and 15 year old children still call me Mummy. If they are happy with that, I don’t care what other people think. I don’t pass comment on what other children call their parents, and if people have an issue with what a child calls their mother, it says more about them than it does about a child.
Let your child decide what they feel comfortable with.

When someone comments on it at school. Usually the same for Father Christmas and the tooth fairy.

In my working class neighbourhood, it was 4. If you went to school saying ‘mummy’ you wouldn’t live it down. I have no memory of calling them anything other than mum and dad.

I’ve noticed it’s a lot later for the middle classes though and know several kids who wouldn’t dare say it in public but would still use ‘mummy’ at home around 10/11. Anything above primary age is a bit weird to me, but to each their own.

Adults shouldn’t be saying mummy and daddy though, unless they’re aristocracy (even then, it’s jarring).

You'll miss mum and dad when they are teens and you become known by your first name or Bruh 😎.

Ds has just started calling me mum rather than mummy. He's 15. Last night he also gave me a lecture on how easy boomers lives had been 🙄until I told him he could cook his own supper then.

He's called ex dad since he was 9.

Our son is eight, for a few months know we have been Daddy and Pappy at home, but Dad and Papa to friends at school.

DD has started to switch to mum and dad in the past year or so (she’s 11) but hasn’t fully ditched mummy and daddy. I still call my own parents mummy and daddy, as do my siblings. I remember the stage when my friends swapped to mum and dad, and vaguely feeling it was something I ought to do but it felt too unnatural and I was too self-conscious! Suddenly changing what I called the most important people in my life felt like a really odd thing to do, like playing a part. It does mean I can never call them in a public place though!

Oh I've remembered another one... sometimes she calls me "Yo Mama" (in her terrible South London accent). I wonder if I can steer her back to "Mother"🤔.

Crikey my kids were young, maybe 4, when they stated school really. I think it's due to teachers saying it maybe. They also call me Mum and I long to be a Mam....

Posh people seem to do it indefinitely.

My 6 year old switched to mum at age 4 but sometimes still uses mummy

My son was 5. I was gutted.

We're still Mummy and Daddy mostly, sometimes Mamma or Mother but never Mum - think I'm probably Mum when spoken about, it's up to them what they call me, ds22 dd20

My 7 year old calls me mum most of the time now. Only just realised! Occasionally mummy. Usually when she’s emotional.