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.

OP, what makes you the arbiter of correctness?

@transformandriseup I find that really quite disturbing & unsettling that you only call him Daddy when you're "alone together"

Yabu. It’s not creepy it’s a term of endearment

DH is Caribbean and he would never ever say Daddy.... 😳

There is literally no difference IMO between mummy and daddy and nanny, granny and aunty. Mamma, papa, mammy, mummy...

Part of the problem has been the use of it in terms like sugar daddies and it being used in porn/sexual connotations which seems really shit that anyone using it is then branded creepy

I don't claim to be the arbitrator of correctness! I just said it sounds weird to me. Is there nothing anyone else ever says that you think sounds odd?!

It's just a silly thread! Clearly I'm in the minority 😅

In laws are west African, I call PIL mummy and daddy, if I see FIL calling me I'll answer the phone "good morning/evening daddy". Have never and would never call them by their first names, it's a cultural norm. What people call family members is often cultural or regional.

My 14 year old son still calls me mumma, I ain't telling him otherwise. I associate mummy and daddy, in older folk, as an upper class thing.

@BlackAudi

It is not creepy and unsettling, it is because most people seem to think the same way as OP or take the piss so often people will talk to or about the parent in one term in some circumstances but use another in private. My DC would not talk about me to someone else as mummy, or yell it out in a supermarket but they do indeed call me mummy at home. I have noticed they actually avoid calling me anything in public as they are really aware that other people don’t like it

@Userwhatevernumber

Same.. I’m of African parentage, I have never called my parents mum or dad, it’s always been mummy and daddy, I’ve not ever heard anyone within my African circle or friends and family refer to their parents in any other way

I’m with you. My DSis refers to her DH as daddy, when talking to her DD, as in, can you call daddy for lunch? Where is daddy? etc. Her DD is 21 years old. We are Canadian and it is definitely not a thing here. Young children call their fathers daddy, till they’re about 5 years old. It makes my stomache churn.

@PookieDo I did t say creepy I said disturbing & unsettling which I fully maintain. A grown woman waiting until she's alone with her father then calls him Daddy?

In my experience posher people tend to say Mummy and Daddy, and less posh people say Mum and Dad. The people who are the least posh of all say Mam.

I think it’s regional I say mommy and daddy as do all my friends etc - we are all Irish though !

Probably my rather rough upbringing @onetimeonlyy but I do agree when I hear an call her Father 'Daddy' I can't help but find it creepy and inwardly cringe... but then again I never really knew my Dad and so it could be a manifestation of my never having really used the term, as either a child or an adult

It is not ‘unsettling’ either. Why? How? It’s not like that posters father is demanding his child ‘call me daddy’. She is calling him daddy because she loves him and it’s affectionate and sweet.

I really hate this thread, I always do hate these ones. People being nasty about something that has absolutely nothing to do with them.

@TiceCream that must be me, we say mam where I'm from 😂

@alolimadayi

Ha! Call them by first names.. can you imagine the earache your DH would get from his parents if you tried that! Lol.

Not the norm where I grew up, absolutely normal where I live now.

I hate these threads. Why are people so unable to imagine something so trivial outside their own experience?

It's not weird. You're weird for thinking that. I call my dad daddy, unless I'm talking about him to someone else.

What is the harm.
Just because some porn actress made it perverse it doesn't have to be.
Quoting a pp it is very normal in Northern Ireland.

It's very upper middle class or upper class to say Mummy & Daddy where I grew up. (large, wealthy, rural town).

I say daddy, my mums 87 and she would refer to her parents as mummy and daddy when talking about them. Why does it annoy you?

My grandma is Irish and when we talk about my great nanny (her mum) she calls her mammy, and her dad, daddy.

I’m from Salford and it’s not really the norm here, I say mam and dad. Doesn’t really matter though does it? Unless your calling them cunt and twat what difference does it make

My dd's 26 and 16 call their Dad Daddy, it has always been the same. I'm Mum though, their choice. I used to call my Dad Pops as an adult and Daddy as a child. I don't think it matters tbh.