would you mind if your child called someone else Mummy?

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My sister's 2yr old dd calls me mummy X. I mind her 2 days a week. My sister and I sound very alike and would talk to dd in a very similar way but she certainly knows who's who and there's no question of who she prefers but should I let her call me 'mummy X' or should I always correct her and say 'no, I'm not mummy.'?

My ds 3 calls my sister mummy. He will go to her for any of the things he would ask me for even if Im there. Im delighted by it how nice for him that he sees us as interchangeable..we are very similar in voice but totally different in looks. He knows we are different and he knows Im his mummy but how nice for him that he looks at her in the same way. Can't imagine why it would upset anyone!
Jenna

DD calls EVERYBODY Mama at the moment, but she is only 16 months. My DH keeps saying, "No, I'm Daddy" but she just smiles cutely and calls him Mama. She can say Daddy and when he's at work refers to him as Daddy, but it's her latest trick - calling everyone Mama. I don't mind, but I might do if she was older.

My kids have all called the childminder 'mummy' now and again, and they have called my Mum 'mummy' as well - I think it's quite normal when they are looked after by different people. Both have corrected them though, which is also the usual thing to do IMO. It doesn't have to be 'No, I'm not mummy' everytime - maybe call her by another name back to make it into a joke.

My dd had a brief phase of calling my sil maman (we lve in france), which i did not particularly like i have to say. However sil corrected and proposed new name which was soon adopted by dd. I would definitely have been upset had she turned a blind eye and continued to let dd call her maman. Same happened with childminder, and again, a new easy to pronounce name was found. I would not be comfortable with my dd calling anyone else mummy.

As a child I once called my stepdad "daddy" when I was with my biological father. It was a slip of the tonge as I always called me stepdad by his first name.

My biological father went completely mad, had me in tears, when on and on about it. I have never forgotten it.

Needs to be dealt with gently and as a slip, not as a major infraction.

My son used to call my sister mum (she also looked after him two days a week) thats what her older children called her. Never bothered me, but i'd tell you sister.

yes very much,I wouldn't like it all

I think there is a difference between a slip of the tongue and calling someone Mummy routinely. DS has variously called me Daddy, the name of his childminder, his sister's name, his best friend's name, so I would be surprised if he has never called his childminder Mummy. He has certainly called DH, Mummy.

But I don't think you should be encouraging your neice to routinely call you Mummy. You are her Auntie. Is your name difficult to pronounce?

My children have called someone else daddy, its because they hear other men being called daddy so for a while they must go through a phase of thinking every grown up man is called daddy. Or every grown up woman with children is called mummy. Its just a name to them.
I wouldn't be upset to hear them call someone else 'mummy' as they are not confusing the person with their mummy, but just thinking thats what ladies with children are called. Which they are, aren't they?

She doesn't always call me mummy, she mainly does it if she's saying 'I want'. (mummy a biscuit, mummy slide, mummy some lunch?)
She knows my name and if I say 'What's my name?' she would never say 'mummy' so I think it is more a slip of the tongue. I think it would annoy me if one of my children was calling my sister mummy but I asked because when we were growing up our mum had a friend who we were very fond of and we used to call her 'mummy x' She liked it, mum liked it and we didn't think anything of it.