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?

Aww YANBU OP! Mine aren’t allowed to call me Mum until secondary school!

I was 11 when I realised I hated the maternal carbon unit, and if I had to call her anything , it was ‘Mother’ . I’d never called her mummy? I don’t know anyone in my life who does or did. Mum or Mam , yes. Or Ma..my first mistake called his mother, ‘Ma’ but that probably originated when they lived over the pond. Mum sounds affectionate enough to me..all my son’s friends used ‘mum’ ..

My teen calls me mother
my preteens call me "bro", "dude" etc
my non verbal youngest calls me nothing at this point a simple mum would probably make me think someone had died 🤣

My ds was 7 when he decided not to call me mummy anymore, he's almost 9 and I still miss it. Now its mum or bro 😄

My son asked me if he could call me mum instead of mummy now he’s turned 9 and I said no I’m not ready for that just yet 😂 but he has been saying it occasionally since so I think he’s testing me to see how I react and I honestly don’t mind

My mummy was mummy till she informed us that croatian for mummy was Majka and from that day on she was never anything other that Majka, the best we could have ever asked for

My son started trying to call me mum at age 5, except the way he said it was whiny and he made it have two syllables, rising intonation on the first, falling on the second. I just told him I didn't like to be addressed that way because it sounded rude and bratty. I would also tell him I was sorry but if he wanted something from me, he needed to address me in a nicer / kinder way. He still calls me mum sometimes but just mum, not muuuh-uhhhhhhm and he mostly calls me mama. Sometimes he says mummy but only to annoy me. He's 7.5 now.

If it makes you feel better my son has been calling me ‘Mum’ since 2.5 years old 😂 occasionally I will get a mummy if he wants something

My two did the same around the age of 8 & 10 and I wasn’t ready to go past the mummy stages just yet so instead they call me “Muv” and their dad “Dod”. I quite like it and it was a nice happy medium between mummy and mum and I suspect we will always be called that :-) which I am happy with :-)

Jesus, grow up.

I am 68 years old. My Mother died last year, I sometimes called her Mum, or Mother and quite often Mummy especially during her 2 year battle with dementia. My own dd (age 50) also calls me any of the above as well as Mummy bear. In my opinion what ever suits

I used to call my abusive mother Mommy, after watching mommy dearest (the Joan Crawford biopic based on Christina Crawford's book). She hated that and beat me all the more (with a large, very hard plastic, wooden-shanked beach spade because I used to laugh at her feeble attempts with her arthritic hands). As you can tell, the bitch might have pimped me out to my own father but she never broke me. I am absolutely going to steal the term maternal / paternal carbon unit to talk about my shitty parents because I already used up "the Y chromosome" on my son's male parent (used to reflect the entirety of his contribution to our son)

It varies. I've seen full grown adults in their 40s still call their parents "mummy and daddy" but that seems to be a posh toff/middle class thing and is cringe and should have stopped years ago. You'd think your daughter would be happy to call you mummy until she was about 9 or 10, but it's her choice, at least she's given you a heads up. Be glad she's not asking to call you by your first name. 😂

My 17 year old has me saved in her phone as Moother. She regularly calls me Mother - mainly when she is being sassy 😂

At least it isn’t bro/bruh.

My 11 year old does 😅

My eldest is 12 and still calls me mummy at home, I heard him refer to me as mum to his friend the other day though which was a first for me but I’m sure he’s been doing it for a while around his friends!

My 3 year old calls me ‘mom’ in Bluey’s accent 🙄

Mini blondes sometimes says mum. I ignore and say I’m mummy. She’s 8

i want a few more years yet as mummy 💖

My 4yo switches between mum and mummy. My 18 month old just shouts “mum mum mum” all the time 😅

I came across a letter I had sent to my granny which I had written in 1955 and for which mentioned 'Mummy', I was 10. So it must still carry firmly throughout the generations.
I dont like it when my married son calls me Nana!

Tho usually she says mummy

then mum with a smily glint in her eye then mummy

I remember when my dd wanted to call me mum, not mummy. She was about 7. However, she attended private school from age 11. Lots of the other girls still called their female parent mummy, so she reverted to that when her friends were near!

Sadly my dh, her dad, passed away in 2019 from cancer. We were both with him at the end. She cried, "Daddy, I love you, Daddy."

I hope you know that the really important matter is that dd knows how treasured, cherished, and loved she is. What she calls you will grow from that secure background and the mutual, warm, feelings she has as she follows your example of how you speak to her.

My eldest son started calling me mum about that age, he's 25 now and calls me mumma . My youngest son called me mummy until about 12 (scholarship to private school and they all seemed to stick with mummy longer) , he's 23 now and calls me mumzy 🥰

My niece and nephew call my lovely SIL “ babe” x

I call my mum mummy - I’m 57
my children are 34 and 28 they call me mummy
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My 15 year old calls me by my first name sometimes, because it amuses her.