Did your kids call you Mommy when they were little, and then switch to something else? If so, about when did they switch?
My son just turned 10, and he still calls me Mommy. I would have thought he’d have switched to Mom or Mama by now. He’s a little immature for his age, and he has a younger brother, so maybe that’s the reason. You don’t often hear teenagers referring to their Mommies so I assume he’ll switch at some point.
Inspired by this thread: Poll: What do you call your parents?
I think my kid stopped calling me ‘Mommy’ when he was about four years old. (He’ll be six in a couple of weeks.) He calls me ‘Mom’ now.
I get the occasional ‘Mommy’ still, though, if he hears his friends say it to their moms.
My kids still occaisionally call me Mommy. One will be 21 in May and the other 17 in July.
I can recall the specific moment when I first called my mother “Mom” rather than “Mommy.” I remember hesitating because it felt weird to say it, but I knew it had to be done. :dubious: I’m gonna guess it was late elementary school, so I may have been about your son’s age.
My daughter is 14 and still calls me Mommy.
When I changed my name and wouldn’t tell them what I changed it to.
Seriously though, I believe the boy was 6 or 7; he’s 15 now and has started calling me “Jeez, Mom!” which I detest but my mom sees it as retribution for when I became a teenager and started calling her “Mother.”
The girl still refers to me as “Momma” or “Mommy” depending on how dramatic she feels at any given moment. Examples: “Oh, Mommy, you’re the best Mommy in the whole world and you’re all mine forever and ever and ever!” “Momma, I’m hungry!” (She’s 7 and yes, she does occasionally pull that overly precious and sweet bastard-child-of-Pollyanna-and-Heidi bit, but you know I’m a total sucker for it.)
Mine never did. For some reason, the oldest called me by my name, the the younger three followed suit. Now that they’re in their 30’s and early 40’s, they’ll call me Mommy or Mamma when they’re being silly.
I’m impressed. You see, sometimes I play a game with myself before opening a thread and try to predict the number of posts that will occur before something happens.
For example, I read this thread title and said to myself "I wonder how many posts will occur before someone pipes in with ‘Never! Because I’m the DADDY’ "
So, I was impressed that no one did that within my predicted post count of 6.
Never! Because I’m the Daddy!
Seriously though, my 8 year old and 7 year old (as of today, as a matter of fact) still use Mommy and Daddy, unless their friends are around! Then it’s Mom and Dad. They both have even asked permission to use Mom and Dad, and we said “sure.” But again, unless friends are around they never do.
I’m also naturally equipped to be a Daddy, but I’m not one, so I can only answer this from my own childhood memories. To the best of my recollection, I never used the name “mommy”, but went straight from “momma” to “mom” at around 6 y.a.
My stepdaughter still sometimes called my wife “mommy” into her late teens.
I made the transition from Mommy to ‘Mother’ around 6yo I think. I use ‘Mother’ to this day, whether talking about her in the third person or when speaking with her directly.
I never used that word and neither did my kids. It’s always been Mama in our family. Actually, “Mommy” is the word we have agreed to use if I am talking to one of the kids and they need to send me a subtle signal that they are in trouble.
My daughter is 15, and she still calls me Mommy. She also calls me Mama, Mommeeeeeeeeeeeeee, Dearest-Mother-Whom-I-Love-So-Much, and Mamu, which I kind of love the sound of, despite it’s bovine/orcaish associations.
In my family we used the word “Mama” not “Mommy”. I think I called my mother that up until late high school, college, somewhere around there. Then I figured it was more mature to call her Mom, which is what I call her now. I also used to call my father “Daddy”, but started calling him “Dad” at the same time.
My kids still call my wife “Mommy” (12 and 8). The twelve-year-old’s friends tease him about it, but he’s clueless.
I don’t remember ever calling mine “Mommy,” although I imagine I did when I was too young to remember. Certainly I started calling her “Mom” (which I usually pronounce “Mum,” except in the vocative - “Moooo-oooom!”) at a very early age. I now sometimes call her “Momma,” too, for a jocular effect.