Grown women referring to their father as Daddy

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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.

OK OK i stand corrected! Where I grew up it's what you say when you're 5 years old then you move to mum and dad.

I shall endeavour to exercise greater tolerance!

You may find that lots of people use it when talking about parents, not to them.

Yes! It's so bloody weird, I wouldn't dream of refering to my own dad as Daddy. My eldest is almost 12 and she's mostly moved on to Mum through her own doing, still the odd Mummy but 90% Mum, I thought it was just a natural progression to move on to Mum/Dad around 12/13.

Culturally it's not so weird, the Irish say it alot but that seems ok because it's the norm (and it sounds nice with the lovely accent) but where I live (North England) it would be classed by most people as very very weird.

I find it far more creepy and unsettling that some posters are apparently trying to sexualise the relationship between other posters and their fathers.

Says far more about your relationship with your own fathers tbh...

My young adult sons call me Mum & their dad Daddy. It's quite normal in Ireland.

Calling anyone who isn’t considered in any way to be your dad ‘daddy’ is, however...

If it’s good enough for the royal family, it’s good enough for me!

I know what you mean, OP, I've always associated ‘mummy’ and ‘daddy’ with a younger child’s vocabulary. I have a couple of old school friends in their 40s who like to post on Facebook to mummy and daddy (all still living) and it obviously doesn’t bother me at all as it’s nothing to do with me, but it always seems sort of gently odd to me. Ultimately it’s up to the individual what they choose to call their parents though.

Call my 71yo dad daddy. It’s only weird if you want it to be 🤷🏽‍♀️

It makes me sad but let's be honest, it's the pornographic/ sexualised connotations that make it sound 'wrong' isn't it? Like the idea of 'Heeey Daddy' said in breathy tones by a grown woman about to be engaging in a sexual way with a man. It's not weird for a toddler/ preteen to say it to their father so why an older girl/ woman when referring to the same man?
My MIL calls FIL daddy when referring to him to her children, always has as long as I've known them and they're both in their 30's now. She calls him by his name always when speaking to him or about him to me or others and they call him dad but she calls him daddy. I sometimes call DH daddy when I'm speaking to him by accident and it does feel 'wrong', again because of the sexual ideas I think because I certainly don't feel wrong or weird telling my under 5's to tell daddy, ask daddy, find daddy etc.

I blame usher and Beyonce. They've clearly jaded me

You'd best not visit N Ireland then, where it is very normal to refer to parents as mummy and daddy. Although actually my own children have never used mummy and daddy, always mum and dad.

I always refer to my father as "father" when I talk about him and am asked quite regularly if I do not get on with him (I do, I just cannot think why I would use Dad in any other context than when I am actually talking to him)

My DC call us mummy and daddy in context of ‘I’m going to daddy’s house tomorrow’ or ‘mummy can I have some money’

They don’t walk around talking to other people about my mummy or my daddy

My DP and I now refer to each other as Mammy and Daddy when talking go our new kitten .

I call my father Dad but he was Daddy when I was a child.

My dad is Daddy when I talk to him but Dad when I talk about him, same as I call my brother Andrew because that's what he was when we were kids but everyone else calls him Andy and Dad calls me by my actual name not the shortened version everyone else uses. Its not weird, its just his name.

My parents were always - until the day they died - Mummy and Daddy. I couldn't imagine calling them anything else. (Although I always referred to them as mum and dad when talking to other people about them!)

Changing what I called them would have been like someone called Robert suddenly asking me to call him David.

I called my father Daddy when I was little then Dad when I was older but he became Daddy again about a year ago when we knew his cancer wouldn't be cured, it wasn't something I thought about much, it just happened. He died a couple of weeks ago and I find myself mixing between the two now.

Where I am from it is mainly a class thing. I have never called my parents mummy or daddy though, only mum and dad.
I find mummy and daddy childlike tbh.

I disagree, OP. Our 22 and 16 year old daughters call us mummy and daddy, always have. There has been, on rare occasion, a bit of inverted snobbery about it, but I've never heard 'creepy' before.

We're in England, just to add.

I would be in such trouble @hoxtonbabe if I ever tried it, think I'd be fortunate they were 3000 miles away!

My daddy died two years ago. He would’ve been 90 on Guy Fawkes night. It’s been a really tough week. Thanks for making it just a teeny bit worse. Didn’t you have literally anything else to be a wanker about?

*in NI

My dad is my daddy and my mum mummy.
I am 48 (and not Irish)
Deal with it.

It reminds me of Hyacinth Bucket .