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?

When I was at university back in the eighties the public school boys sometimes still said "Mummy".

Don't know if that's still a thing.

I’ve always preferred Mum to Mummy, but I do remember a friend not liking the transition. I think mine changed around the same age, maybe slightly earlier. They tend to copy others. Another friends’ children started calling their parents by their first names at primary school, that seems really weird to me.

My teens still call me mummy. The youngest calls me Mama a lot too. They’ve never called me Mum.

You can try. But it didn't work for my mum. I dropped mummy when I was about 7. Mum hated it, but I won! (I'm 63 now.......).

My teenagers still call me mummy, but they have a South African father and everyone is his family calls their mother “mommy”, no matter how old they are!

That’s south of the border isn’t it?

I’m 30 and still call mine Mummy. I asked to call her mum about age 9 and she got all sad and so I never tried again 😂 Mummy and Daddy they remain

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My son called me mummy until he was 12, then he switched to mum as felt he had to. Sadly my little one decided to copy him, so she went straight from mama to mum when she was a lot younger. Xx

My dd is 11 and uses both. Maybe yours will be the same x

My two are 14 and 15, both still call me mummy in the house, I expect, just mum in front of friends. I don’t think my son 15 even knows he’s doing it when he shouts mummy! I like it

DD is 10 and im still mummy. DS is 12 and has been calling me “ugh mother!” with an eye roll for a while.. 😉

I called my mother a mixture of “ma”, “mum” and “mummy” until the day she died, aged 80, as did my older brothers though dad was ”dad” from the age of 10

I think mine were around 7/8 when they started using mum, but still used mummy interchangeably and it faded out gradually - I still got the occasional “mummy” at age 12/13.

My 6yo has called me a mix of mummy and mum for years 🙈 mum is two syllabled though “mu-um”.

My one year old shouts mum constantly 😅 I don't think she has ever said Mummy

I called my mum mama till the age of about 6 then swiftly transitioned to mum because a kid at school made fun of me. I remember her being really upset and I just didn’t understand why, but recently DD has started calling me mum and I do feel a little sad.

Weirdly though I’ve always called my dad his first name or sometimes farther. I once called my mum by her first name and she was raging. I love my dad and we are really close but when I look at him I just see Pete like idk he looks exactly like a Pete not dad. I remember making a father's day card and a kid asking why I didn’t have a dad and I was well confused.

Well if you want your kid to bullied for being a baby then insist all you like 👍🏻.

My (almost) 7yo had the conversation with me a couple of months ago - that he will be calling me mum from now on as he's getting big 😂
The best part is he seems to have forgotten about it and still calls me mama

Dd1 was about 7 or 8, I think dd2 was more like 4 - I know she'd started even before dd1 at times.
Ds went from Mummy to Mother. No idea why, but it's become a bit of a joke: He says "mother" and I reply "son".

My teens still call me mummy. In the 90s that would have been social suicide so I often correct them to mum. They still call me mummy anyway, and i've noticed their friends of the same age also say mummy (to their mums, not me!) I thought maybe it's more normal now.

Mine never really called me Mummy when they were little, but now at 17 and 20 I am 'Mummy' and 'Mumzy respectively

My daughter is 7 and I can't remember when she last called me "mummy".... Not for a few years. In my case it's "mother" now... Because that's what her adult sister calls me...