Grown women referring to their father as Daddy

[onetimeonlyy]

Can we please make this illegal? It makes me cringe whenever I see or hear it.

Why can't you just say Dad?........ Simple. Effective. Not creepy.

It’s the norm here in Northern Ireland, I don’t bad an eyelid when I hear it

I call mine Dad but 'Daddy' doesn't bother me in the slightest.

MIL does this, she is past retirement age and the daddy in question has been dead for decades... I always thought it was an old-fashioned middle class thing.

My very Irish mother always refers to male parents as 'daddy'. It may be a regional thing.

Honestly this hatred of it really annoys me

I don’t know why, but my DD’s are 17 and 15 and call us Mummy and Daddy. It’s just stuck. We don’t encourage it but that is what they call us. I hate it that my own kids seemingly can’t call us whatever they fuck they like without making someone ‘cringe’. Just get over it! It’s not your kids or your problem is it?

Why do you think it's icky? Can you explain why you feel like that?

Not as bad as in the bedroom....

I call often call my dad daddy when it's just us together and I don't find it creepy at all. However when my siblings are around it's "dad" and referring to him in conversation it's "my dad"

My mum does refer to her own dad as "daddy" in conversation and I think it's little bit weird.

Sorry I won’t stop for you OP. It’s cultural for me. I’m from a Caribbean background, it’s the norm to say Mummy (or sometimes Mumma) and Daddy (or sometimes Pappa). When I talk about my parents to others, I’ll say, ‘my mum this’ my dad that, but when addressing them directly, mummy and daddy. I even call my best friends (also Caribbean ) mum and dad, mummy and daddy 😁.
Why does it bothers you so much? I am baffled when people call their aunts and uncles or even their parents by their names (instead of auntie so and so) but I would never think they should not do that. Each to their own.

My sister refers to our Dad as Daddy. I really don’t understand why. We are middle aged, he is 81. If she accidentally says Dad she immediately corrects herself and says Daddy . She also sometimes used to correct me when I said Dad - as if we couldn’t have a conversation in which he was referred to as Dad. I knocked that on the head .

It makes me cringe I am afraid.

Just me then! 😂
Because it's how I speak to my baby. In a baby voice. Saying mummy and daddy, as a grown woman I think it sounds so silly to call my parents that now

I once commented about this on a thread of unrealistic stuff that happens in the movies because Ive never seen it irl and like op it really bothers me! Although having watched Derry Girls it sounds much less creepy in an irish accent.

I have a friend, she's almost 70 and refers to her long deceased parents as Mother and Daddy, it's not done in a twee way, she's from a Welsh farming background, carried on with farming when her husband left her for their babysitter. She doesn't suffer fools gladly but those are her names for her parents.
It's lovely and doesn't bother me at all.

At least they are their dads - it's far worse when a wife calls their husband daddy when not referencing their children. 🤮

Daddy or Papa is the norm amongst South Asians, and it’s Dad that is considered wrong (like most English slang really).

It's Pater surely?

It's a regional and class thing. Jack Whitehall calls his dad daddy is that creepy or is it just grown women? I don't really see why it matters what other people call their parents. I use dad btw.

If I'm with my dad I call him dad if I'm talking to someone else about him I say 'daddy'
Such as if I'm saying to my mum
"Where's daddy"
Or
"do you think daddy can get this"
Same goes for my mum if I'm with her she's mum if I talk about her shes mammy.
Myself and both sisters do this we Don't say it is a creep way ethere

It is a shame then that some people (who, I don’t know, generally creepy people you seem to know) have ruined it. It’s just a term of endearment for a parent. You could say that aunt is cringey instead of aunt in the same way. But somehow this is totally acceptable as is granny, nanny.... why is that?

• Auntie instead of aunt

Called my father daddy into his 90's. My parents used to call each other mammy and daddy in our company

I don't understand what the issue is tbh

What's wrong with family members referring to each other using fairly standard words.

There was one the other day about how grim it is for kids to say mama (pronounced mumma).

What does it matter at all?

Is good linked to the bizarre thing from, I think, america, where women call their partners daddy? Usually with some sexualities undertones around submission. That's far grimmer to me.

I never called my father "Dad". He would have hated it.
"Daddy" all the way thank you very much.

@onetimeonlyy yes, I’m NI it’s completely normal, as is mommy - my DH says both all the time

I call my df usually dad. Daddy if I want something or I'm being extra nice