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?

I think there's a class thing where upper class adult children go on calling their parents mummy and daddy.
Not sure what that's about except some / most may have gone to boarding school

They decide when they feel the time is right, like we did. We all expect it so doesn't matter about what age really. I'm sure she will continue to call you Mummy at home though! DS wanted to say Mum and Dad and does outside but at home doesn't. Xx

I hate the word "mummy". Made sure the kids stopped calling me that beyond their 5th birthdays. Thankfully they have done

I do too and never encouraged it with the kids.
However I am mummy to the dog. Just gives me the ick with humans.

Blimey. My boys only just turned 4 and he calls me ‘just’ mum sometimes. He still calls me mama and mummy too, to be fair. Also MOTHER sometimes 😂

To my older teens I’m mummy, mumma, or my first name. I’ve never been mum, not objected to it but they’ve never called me it. I don’t really like it so I’m happy about that. DH is daddy or a variation of his first name. He refuses to answer to dad 😆

I have a friend who always called her mum mummy and she was in her 60's!!
And dad daddy.
It's often like that for the upper classes.

Haha, mine also calls me marge! My name is Lisa!

18 and still mummy. We did say when DS was about 13 that he could call us mum and dad if he wanted. He looked at me as if I was mad and said 'why? Your names are mummy and daddy.'

This made me laugh out loud

My now 4 year old started calling us mum and dad aged 3 😭 better than when she decides to call us first names or "mate" 😂

I often get called ‘bruv’ now 😂

Seriously, IMHO you should let them call you what they feel comfortable with rather than dictate it.

Pretty sure mine stopped calling me Mama or Mummy by school age. Mummy likely to be seen as babyish - last thing a 7-year-old wants to be seen as.

But depends on lots of things: a friend used ‘Mummy’ until his mum died in her 90s. Though perhaps not in front of his mates in his teens.

7 and 4 both call me mum, mummy and mama depending on how sookie they are being. I know they mean me.

I’m 38 and my parents still refer to each other as mummy and daddy when talking to me and my older brother referred to them both as such until his death at 24. They’ve been doing it since the early 80s so I guess it’s ingrained! I have no idea when I stopped though, definitely at school though.

Yes, your right there’s definitely a class element to it as well.

It will come back in a few years when she’s asking for something she wants you to approve e.g. extension of curfew, wildly inappropriate clothing, fast food or spending money! 😂 Then during The Rebellion you will become ‘Mother’ 😂 You are likely to earn an affectionate nickname too, that sticks as does Mum - just roll with it all, it’s a wonderful ride!

I've got a very posh friend who calls her parents mummy and daddy, and it makes me die a little inside when she mentions them. I try not to pull faces, because I love her and she can't help being posh.

Mine’s called me by my Christian name for years 😂

I have always been Mum, my mum was mum as was her mum but her mum was Mema

Same!

Mine are all adults now. My title varies, sometimes I am Mum, Mummy, Mumzy or Mother Goose or occasionally just Mother depending on which adult child is speaking to me.

I’m mother an have been since they were about 8 if that makes you feel any better!! Started as a joke and it’s just stuck 🤣

My mum is mum, mummy, Mama (as in Ma-mar said like the royal family might), Marjorie and I am 44.

I am mostly mum but also mother or mummy or mummeeeeee depending on the mood. DD is 19! To be fair though, she rarely gets her proper name either!

In my experience they branch off into mum and then venture back to mummy in the privacy of home.

I am 35 and still call mine Mummy! 😂