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.

Although having watched Derry Girls it sounds much less creepy in an irish accent.

redexpat is so right. Watch Derry Girls OP, that'll cure you. Hearing it said by a vitriolic, 16yo, Irish girl the word "daddy" tends to lose its ick factor.

@BlackAudi

Ha ha no not "alone together" like that, I think you read into that a bit too far. If you're used to saying it it is not sinister at all.

Does it Candle? It reminds me of when I had a whole family, but you just have a little sneer over there with OP.

@onetimeonlyy I’ve had someone on MN pick me out for saying “mom” - but it’s my dialect - it’s mom where I’m from not mum - I see you’re now informed above, but I wish some people wouldn’t judge - regional dialect is usually the reason, not class etc.

I call my mum and dad a number of things: mum, mam, mummy and dad, daddy, pop, depending on the conversation/mood etc. I’m not sure why it matters to anyone else!

The dog knows my husband as daddy. Why I started calling him that to the dog I don’t know. It sounds naff now the dog’s fully grown

My kids call me mama, they call their father papa, we are not French, they always called me mama but chose papa around 7 or so, they are grown. My friend is 86 and refers to her deceased parents as mummy and daddy. So what. It matter not

My mum is 64 and still refers to my grandma as Mummy.

Btw any Chalet School fans thinking of Joey and Jack insisting on their kids calling them Mamma and Papa?

MN really loves to sneer at anything regional

I remember being shocked a few years ago when I met the parents of one of my best friends for her birthday celebrations and she called them Mummy and Daddy. We were 30. I had never heard anyone use those names before as an adult. I told my DH and he explained it's quite common in middle class circles. I've accepted it now, but it was a new concept to me at the time and I honestly had never met anyone who says that until then

Because he didn't like being called Dad.

HTH.

Yeah I sort of see what you mean op.
My mum would call her father daddy right up until he died at 88.
She still calls her mum mummy (my mum is in her 60s).
I find it a bit odd and babyish. She doesn't care, so whatever.

*doesn't. Thankfully he is still around.

Ps the dog knows me as mama, h is known as dada, he's clever though he also knows our names (and will go to different parts of the house to "fetch" people)

You're getting a hard time, OP When i was gowing up, anyone calling their parents mummy and daddy over the age of 7 would have been ridiculed mercilessly by me but my DD(15) still calls us that and it seems natural for her to continue using the terms she always has. Just like it would be strange for us to start calling her Katherine rather than Katie just because she's not 5 anymore.

I'm in my sixties, my parents died 10 years ago. My Mother called her parents Mummie and Daddie. I called mine Mummy and Daddy. My children refer to me (on their phone contact list or emails as) (DD) Mumma, (DS) Muttie. Times change. I do find being called Mum disturbing though. Their Father is always Dad or "name' though (he's not a Daddy).

Nothing wrong with mammy and daddy. I bet you say things that annoy other people too. I detest the word mum.

It was just a silly thread. Like saying you'd put something in room 101. I wasn't trying to offend anyone. I'm from North east and live in London, my accent, word choices and dialect are a constant source of mirth to those I know and work with. We say Mam! 😅

As many people have said upthread in Asian and African cultures it is very normal to say mummy, daddy, mamma, papa etc well into adulthood and nothing weird about it all.

I’m grown - two children of my own now. I still call my daddy - daddy. Mind your own business, or find a hobby, or something to really get angry/annoyed about maybe?

I agree OP.

But it is regional I only cringe if it is in a region where Daddy isn’t used. Hearing Daddy in a NI accent sounds really normal.

And especially if it’s only Daddy called that, not Mum. It’s really rare though. There is sometimes a bit of a woman sucking up to her Dad by being more of a little girl that really is icky. You just don’t see that the other way, a son being all young boyish and calling her Mummy.

Bleurgh.

I thought it was middle class, or as when I was at school. They were mummy and Daddy if you were very young, up to age 10 at most.
I think it's a class/ location thing.

@midnightmisssuki do you call your mum mummy?

Completely unreasonable.
My dad is dad when taking about him, daddy when I'm talking to him.

Why is it women who say Daddy that irritates you OP? Not men who say it?