Dd wants to call me mum

[Fancyahobnob]

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?

My 15 year old twins still call me mummy... But mainly they call me "Bro" 🙄

My kids have always called me mum. Ive never called my mum 'mummy' either

My nearly 22 years old dd calls me mummy in her sweetest voice when she needs something from me, the tone is much nicer than when she calls mum or worst, mother.
mother is when she is explaining something that i don't agree with or understand," you get it now MOTHER !!!"

My 4 year old chooses a mix of mum, mummy and mama

Ds8 calls me mama mainly but sometimes mummy. Ds5 calls me mummy though has attempted mum a few times. I dont like it though so discourage it. But I'm one of those hated mums on mn who also still refers to myself in the 3rd person and still use mummy as in 'mummy will get you a drink'.

I'm 41 and I still call my parents mummy and daddy. My kids still call me mummy (or more accurately muuuummmmmmmmmyyyyyyy) my oldest is 10. My youngest refers to me as mama when she looking something 🤣 she is 4.
My middle finds it hilarious to call me Maaaaaa!!!!

I actually don't like being called Mum either, it makes me cringe a bit, I don't really know why. My kids do know this. And strangely I will refer to myself as Mammy when I'm talking to my kids "ach you're just mammy's wee chicken aren't you?" Which I would have called my own mother when I was a child but probably changed to mummy as a preteen.
My dad still called his mother Mammy and he was 69 when she died.

My kids sometimes use it, in a mock formal way. I like it. I then call them offspring.

Never called mine, Mum or Mummy very occasionally Mam but usually first name terms. It's an Austistic thing make smore sense when you shout mam in a crowded dpalve loads of women turn around whereas if you shout her name there's only 1 usually (she has an unusual name)

She's too old for mummy, it would be embarrassing for her

My children aged 31 and 34 still call me mummy, I call my mother mummy, and she called my late granny mummy up until 5 years ago. Its a cultural thing for us.

I think if you pay this much attention to how she calls you, it might feed her rebellious side if she has one.
PersonaIly, I wouldn’t react.
If she asked you though, just tell her she can use whichever term she’s more comfortable with at the time.
A bit like when a dd is usually referred to by mum as Nicky (for instance) which signals everything is well.
However if the mum said to her dd “Oh, Nicola Jane, come here now”, would tell the child something was up.
Your dd might then choose to call you mummy or mum because then she’s been given a choice.

Let your child call you what she wants. This might change again as she grows up, but at the moment she’s experimenting.

My mother used to force us to call her ‘mummy’ in front of friends, despite us begging her to let us use ‘mum’ like all our friends did, and we were already getting bullied for being ‘posh’. Her view was that ‘mum’ was ‘common’ (her favourite word for people she looked down her MC nose at). All this despite the fact she’d sent us to the nearest estate school without checking how bad it was, such was her desire to get back to work.

The result was that we’d adopt some sort of strangled version of ‘mum …y’, and eventually we stopped referring to her at all publicly, if we could. Or stopped inviting friends home.

I still call my father ‘daddy’ when I’m speaking to him directly, though, though I refer to him as ‘dad’ when talking to others. He was never fussed with what we called him. I’m NC with my mother, for lots of very good reasons.

My partner(66) used to call his late mother Mumsie.

love this 😅

No idea, but I reckon I must have seen something on tv when I was young where the kids called their parents by their names. I thought it was incredibly de rigeur and tried it out. Didn't work at all!!

I know grown ups who still call their P's mummy / Daddy. My own mother called my grandad 'daddy' til he died. Generational / class thing, maybe?

Bit different as Mine are adults, two call me Mummy, one Mummzi, a lot of the time, …it’s just an affectionate term, sometimes Mum if out or in company.

”Mummy” is a perfectly normal title for a much larger group of society than just the royal family.

I’m with the op - would not have tolerated “mum”.

2 x DS in early 30s - Mumsy, Muvlar, Madre!

My 14 year old says mummy. She says mum is too weird. But then she calls my mum (her grandma) mama (because we all do) which annoyed me for ages - but I’m over it now.

I know it’s heartbreaking when abit of cuteness slips away. But she might fall back into mummy.

My 3 year old niece called out for her Dad the other morning and summoned him by his name 😂

As an adult I reverted to Mammy.

I'd just let her call you whatever she wants.

Don't make her feel like she can only make you happy by being babyish (I'm not saying that it's automatically babyish to say 'mummy' but it might feel babyish to her).

I know a lot of parents feel sad when their kids start to grow up, but children do pick up on this stuff and it can make them feel guilty about maturing, like they're disappointing their parents somehow, which is a horrible feeling for a child to have.

😂😂 Brilliant!!

@Fancyahobnob You may have a while to wait before the ironic version comes through, but there is hope!

Also brilliant! 😂

Yep, DD is 12 and calls everyone "bruh" or "broski". Otherwise it's mum and dad, and we're absolutely forbidden to say mummy or daddy