Do (or did) your kids call you "mummy"?

[Miaou]

And if it's did, at what age did they stop?

dd1 and dd2 call me mummy (aged 8 and 6), but I've noticed that they are unusual among their peers. I called my mum and dad mummy and daddy until I was about 15 or 16!

Same as Enid weirdly. Ds (5.5) calls me Mummy. Calls DP dad sometimes though.
Dd (almost 3) calls me mama and I love it.

dd (2.6) is starting to call us 'mum' and 'dad'. I wish she wouldn't.

dd calls me mum (5 yrs) dd calls me mummy (4yrs)

I still do call my M&D Mummy and Daddy and I am 40. I find that a bit embarrassing to admit but there was never a time when I could change the way I address them so it stuck.

Our children (currently the eldest is 9) call dh and me either Mummy and Daddy or Mum and Dad (and sometimes even by our first names) and I am happy for them to do that as I feel that when they get older, they will be able to drop Mummy and Daddy (the names, not the people!) without embarrassment and won't be lumbered with it as adults, as I am.

I am mummy or mama - I like both, I normally correct her if she calls me mum. She can call me mum once she starts school

Oh the only name I hate and won't accept is dd calling me Mama in a faux, Barbie/American voice. I correct her if she does that.

My DD (3) calls me Mummy or variations of it.

The DSs (my step DSs) call their parents Mum & Dad, they stopped referring to DH as 'Daddy' at about 7.

I stopped calling my Mum 'Mummy' when I was about 8, I think.

TBH, it makes me cringe when I hear adults referring to their own parents as Mummy & Daddy. Although that isn't as bad as older couples whose children have flown the nest still calling each oher Mummy & Daddy

my mam is more of a 'mumma' tbh

NDP, it makes me cringe too and I do it! although I only feel embarrassed when we are in the company of people outside the family circle. Interested to read that Basketcase's mother thinks any adult who calls their parents Mummy and Daddy is either southern or snobbish. I would be described as both I imagine by many people.

Mummy and Daddy here. Sometimes ds1 and ds2 say 'Muuum' or 'Daaaad' (they are 4 and almost 3).

I call mine Mum and Dad but sometimes Mummy and Daddy

I called my parents Mummy and Daddy until I was a teenager, too, but now it's Mum and Dad - although when I talk about her to dh, I tend to refer to her as "My Mother". My dh calls his mother Mom, and insists on referring to me as Mommy when he talks about me to dd, and it drives me spare - I'm Mummy, and it has a U in it, not an O! When he and his mother speak about his dad, they call him Daddy, although he refers to him as Dad when he talks to me about him. My SIL (dh's sister) still calls MIL Mummy, and she's 46.

My dd (4) calls us Mummy and Daddy, although she's started to call dh Dad sometimes as well so I don't know how long it will last for.

I don't associate adult children calling their adult parents 'Muumy' & 'Daddy' as snobbish or southern, but I suppose it does make me think that the adult offspring has a bit of a Peter Pan complex.

But what is wrong with it NDP?

There's nothing wrong with it, RTKM, people are entitled to call their own parents whatever the heck they like, but it does make them sound child-like. We all make snap judgements about people we meet for the first time and if I met an adult person who called their adult/elderly parent 'Mummy' or 'Daddy', I suppose I would judge them as a little immature.

Well I guess I am then

No need to get shirty RTKM, you asked why I felt uncomfortable with it and I told you.

No NDP, I do not have a Peter Pan complex. I would happily call my parents Mum and Dad if I could, but I can't as they are Mummy and Daddy to me. It feels wrong calling them anything else, just as it would feel wrong to call my children but a similar but slightly different name to their own, although I must confess that I call my children all sorts of varioations on their given name, so that argument doesn't hold up does it?!

But Peter Pan? No no no! Not me, anyway. I'd pefer to be thought of as southern (which I am anyway) and snobbish (which is a matter of opinion) than for you to think I don't want to grow up.

I'm resigned to never being called "Mummy" - or "Mum" for that matter... Because ds's are lucky enough to have 2 Mums, we get called by our initials - so I'm "T" to ds's! (this is in spite of dp and I calling ourselves "Mummy T" etc., but both boys decided independently to just stick to the letters!).

HOOTER

oooooooooh crumbs I wasn't getting upset

IMHO everyone is different and each family is different

No offence taken on my part NDP.

Think yourself lucky, from an early age ie: the year dot we were told to call them by their names not mum, dad, mummy, daddy etc...This has of course now extended to their grandchildren who don't call them granny, grandad etc..

I think that it is incredibly sad, I am so proud when my sons calls me mum or mummy.