At what age should children stop doing this?

[LittleSugaPlum]

Just out of interest, at what age is children seen as too old to be calling their parents "Mummy and Daddy?"

My husbands two children aged 8 and 10 still call their parents mummy and daddy.

I was just wondering should they have grown out of this by now, im sure i was calling my parents mum and dad from the age of 5ish.

My 3yo often calls us Mum and Dad.

It's always Mummmeeeee in the middle of the night though

Actually, DD (5) has taken to shouting Bye Bye

There is no 'should'. I still do and I am 38. I didn't see why I should 'conform' and change what I called them just because everyone else did.

my 5yr and 8yr old kids call us mum and dad now

They will stop when they want to stop.

There is no age to stop, it when they decide to 'be more grown up'.

I would be devastated if my ds stopped calling me mummy at 5. He is 4. Still my baby!

I call my mum "mummy" still if I want something as does dh and BILs with their mum.

It's not compulsory to stop saying it at a certain age. I think I'd quite like it if ds still does it when he's 10+.

I don't think there is a certain age. DS1 is almost 9 and I have been encouraging him to call me Mum lately.

The only reason is my Mum never told me I could call her Mum and I felt embarrassed calling her Mummy so for years avoided using any name. DH wonders why I keep pushing it and thinks I should just let DS change when he wants to. I just want him to be aware he can change. He will say Mum to his friends when talking about me though.

My ds is 12 and calls me mummy

moaning i ve heard of children doing that before (calling their parents by the first name to be cheeky)

All my northern Irish grown up friends still use mummy and daddy.

His why would you want your child to stop at 5?
My 9 year old alternates btw mum and mummy.

I'm 24 and still call mine daddy but that's just cos were really close none of my friends do this. Lol

Mine both called me mummy until @ 10years plus, didnt really notice when they stopped, i left it up to them, i think it started in front of their friends but in private it was mummy, now its mum all the time

DH does refer himself to the children as daddy. I did mention that maybe he should start to refer himself as dad.

The 8year old still insists on watching peppa pig which im sure is aimed at 2-4year olds?

I did mention to DH that he should encourage the 8year old to watch more age appropriate things?

Is it ok for children to be watching childrens programmes aimed at ages alot younger than them?

I love how my irish grown up friends talk about their Mammy.

My nearly 13yo ds calls me Mummy and my 9yo dd calls me Mum. I've left it entirely up to them and that is what they prefer.

It is generally when they realise thier school friends are saying it. Calling parents by first names when little is common as it is what they hear you called by everyone else. They tend to grow out of that too.

I'm 33 and I quite enjoy Peppa Pig. It's not The Simpsons, but there are a few under-the-parapet jokes aimed at adults and older children in there.

OP, why do you care? What difference does it make (and - hi, I'm Plantsitter, and I like Peppa Pig.)

My ex-SIL was in her 30s & still called her parents mummy & daddy

DD nearly 13 still calls me mummy when she is trying to wheedle something out of me

I'm 37 and from N.I. and still say "mummy" or sometimes "mother". "Mum" is a bit too anglicised and I don't think it's really used at home. However my 3 yr old DS sometimes calls me mum but he's born and bred in London.

My DS calls me Mum (he's 17). DD calls me Mumma (she's 14). I can't remember when they stopped calling us mummy and daddy and I don't think it mattered in the slightest.

I was in sainsburys the other day with a very well to do lady in her mid 50s taking to "mummy"

My DD is 4yo and I'm still Mummy for now, occasionally Mum, and sometimes I get called Daddy too, when she's tired.

She is about to start school and there is a girl in her class with the same first name as me. It's quite an unusual name, so I am bracing myself for an onslaught of cheeky first-name-calling over the coming year.

Not totally relevant to the thread, I know!

What have you got against it? Feels like there's an agenda here...