Dd wants to call me mum

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And not mummy anymore 😔
Didn’t think it would happen this young (7)
Want to be mummy a bit longer!

What age was your child when you started being called mum and how did it happen?

Aged 2 😭she heard the childminder shouting "BabyBeelzebub's mum is here!" to her assistants and started calling me mum! She does cycle between mum, mummy and mama (I actually like 'mama' less than mum TBH 😂).

However, my mum insisted on mummy until I left home at 19 - I now just avoid addressing her using mum/mummy, because saying 'mum' was drilled into me as bad, but as a 36yo woman I can't bring myself to say "mummy" 😂 It's only in the last 5 years I've been brave enough to put 'mum' in cards haha

To be honest it doesn’t bother me that much!

My DS21 still calls me Mummy quite often. I guess there's no rule.

Can go full circle, my 20 something daughters call me mummy again now for some reason.

I detest "Mother" and DS knows of he uses it I won't answer

I think he stopped regularly calling me Mummy at about 9☹️

My ds was 2!

I think @Flickaflock has had some unfair criticism above. She wasn’t criticising the use of the term’Mummy’ and she wasn’t suggesting that OP would love her DC less as she grew up.

She was suggesting that the child should lead on this. As the PP who had to put far too much thought into prioritising her mother’s feelings whilst growing up, I completely agree. I also know DC can easily take unintended messages and the one @Flickaflock suggested is logical from a child’s POV.

On another topic that’s arisen here, I also can’t see why anyone would have a strong reaction to the terms DC in other families use for their parents. People are cringing over ‘Mummy’ and ‘Daddy’, which seems an overreaction. Where does that come from? (I am not British)

Yeah same!

My oldest, who is in his thirties does this. My DH has started calling me this as well 😀

My mother was always, and is, mama (mum), or majka (pronounced with a soft j, meaning mother) for the most part. Sometimes mamochka, mamulechka, or mamulya in my father’s language when being silly. Mati when jokingly referring to her ultra formally and/as the motherland.

I am mummy in the house but mum outside the house 😆

My DD started calling me Mum at 2, which I blame fully on Bluey! Though for the past year she calls me Mama and if we are apart she will refer to me as Mummy even though she never calls me Mummy (nearly six now).

My daughters, 7 and 9, call me Mommy.

We are still mummy and daddy. Mine are 21,17 and 16. My nephew and nice are 7 and have always called my sister mum, never mummy. I think kids just go with what they want.

Edited to add that I was, for a considerable time, Mummy Pig to my eldest, and my ex-h was Mufasa. We were quite relieved when she reverted to mummy and daddy.

Still mummy and daddy here with our 10 year old but I’m aware we’re on borrowed time lol. I love it every time, just in case it’s the last

For some reason all the Nothern Irish people I work with, and there are a few, have absolutely no quams in referring to the parents as Mummy and Daddy. Grown adults saying they are visiting their Mummy and Daddy at the weekend. Both men and women say it. It's quite endearing.

My husband called his mother by her first name since he was around 8 or 9. The family thought it was funny. He still refers to her (she is long dead) by her name.

My 18 year old DD still calls me
mummy 😀 Mum when speaking to her friends though. In fact, several of them still say mummy and daddy. It’s cute.

My 8 year old calls me mother sometimes 😂 Usually when I’ve asked him to do something he doesn’t want to do.

I love this!

I can't remember, what does it matter? I think, 'Mum', is rather nice.

My youngest (11) still calls me mummy occasionally.
If I'm not paying attention it goes:
"Mummy, mummy, mummy, mum, mum, MUM, Deidre!!" 🙈

I get Mawbags from.adults DS.

Would it not be "mammy"?

Mine are in their 20s and still call me Mummy or Mama.

DH and siblings called FIL daddy and they were in their 50s abs 60s.

They referred to him at "My dad", but called him Daddy.

I don't actually ever remember saying mummy..it was always Mum from as young as I can recall.