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.

Why does it make you cringe?
I called my Dad, Daddy. He has been gone for almost 2 years now, but he will always be my Daddy.

No I call my dad daddy or papa!

I guess where I'm from its just what small children say. Or I need to stop listening to Beyonce songs!

Because it's how I speak to my baby. In a baby voice

So you're asking if you're being unreasonable to expect other people to change what they call their parent because of how you speak to your baby?! Ummm yes, obviously YABU. And btw, adults sound really silly when they talk in a baby voice, even to a baby.

It's common in Ireland. Other than that it's a posh thing.

In my 40s. Irish. It’s Mammy & Daddy. Totally normal for us. Nothing creepy about it.

I’m from Northern Ireland and it very normal to use mummy and daddy at any age.

Oh ffs! It's none of your business what other people call their parents. Unclench and find something worth worrying about.

I've called my Dad 'Dad' for nigh on 50 years but if someone else wants to use another name for their own bloody father - that's fine

I say Papi or Papa and Mama/Mamma.
Papi basically means Daddy where I'm from.

And it obviously doesn't feel strange to me but maybe that's cultural.
I wouldn't necessarily say papi when speaking about him btw...

Oh ffs

GAVEL you stupid autocorrect!

OP it’s class based in the north east. Mam is the default but posh people still use Mum or Mother. In fact they purposely avoid saying Mam in order not to be common.

wtffgs

Ah. I did wonder about you writing fork... 😅

I've always used it, right until the day my dad died when I was 34, and I called my mum Mummy too. For me it's because I don't shorten names - my brother will always be Christopher, not Chris, and to me, it's the same thing. It would be like calling him a different name entirely - like Dave or Michael. To me, Mummy and Daddy were their names.

oh ffs, get over it, its not creepy, if you call your father Dad or Daddy what the hell had it got to do with you??!

My children (2 are late teens) call us mummy and daddy. Why is it creepy?

I'm not about to tell my mummy she can't call her daddy daddy.

I do think some people are piling on the OP for what is clearly a silly lighthearted thread.

Personally, I agree that it sounds very strange to ME when a (non-Irish, where it's the norm) person says it as, to ME, like the OP, it is something that young children say - like eating din-dins and riding on the choo-choo, looking at the baa-lambs in the fields.

In my very unscientific opinion, I always assumed that people started off saying Mummy and Daddy with babies because it softens the otherwise quite harsh-sounding end to the words and is a longer, more distinctive sound for a baby to hear and learn to recognise.

But if that's what other adults prefer to call their parents or be called by their adult children, it's none of my business at all.

My DPs have refused to respond to anything else. They've always been Mummy and Daddy. I tried Mum and Dad so many times as a child but they either ignored me or got cross. It doesn't bother me now - my Dsis calls then the same and she's a lot younger than me but also a successful grown adult. If I am talking about them I refer to them as my mum or my dad.

DD calls me Mummy or Mumma or Mum. I don't correct any of it.

In the bedroom with a man not your father however, gross.

Sorry I'm in the minority and I agree with you OP! Maybe not creepy but I do cringe when I hear it. Maybe it's because I'm Australian and the 'regional' thing there. I've not heard anyone use the term mummy or daddy unless they're under 12ish or referring to them as that when speaking to their kids.
Some poster said dad or mum is slang? I think mummy or daddy is more a colloquial term than mum or dad. When we refer to our parents talking to other adults we don't say 'my mummy' or 'my daddy'. Of course unless it's a regional thing like Ireland if it's the norm.

I called my mum and dad mam and dad, when talking about them to one or the other or my brother to called them mama and dada.

Mumsnet just would not be Mumsnet without these regular "I can't believe that everybody isn't from my own cultural background and/or social class"- threads.

(No stake in this as I have never addressed my own father in English and am unlikely ever to do so.)

Have you never once in your life said "I don't like that word" or found something someone said odd.

Of course. But, you can certainly understand how calling it creepy might imply there's an inappropriate relationship between the child and the parent. You can imagine why someone might be offended by that.

My fiance and his sister still call their mum and dad, mummy and daddy. I do have a giggle when I hear it. When he talks to me about them he refers to them as mum and dad.

I do know what you mean OP. I guess I probably have previously associated it with either small children or posh people That said, I don’t think it’s creepy, and having lost my Dad this year I think it’s actually really nice.

Sorry I'm in the minority and I agree with you OP!

It seems that you, the OP and I are; and yet I have NEVER heard a (non-Irish) person refer by default to another adult's parent as Mummy or Daddy, as if it was the standard or even just a common variant.

Asking a 4yo at a party to "Check with your Mummy if it's OK for you to have some cake" is completely normal; but nobody has EVER asked an adult (or even a teenager) within my earshot, "Did your Mummy or Daddy give you a lift here?" or similar. Again, to ME, if somebody asked me that, I'd assume they were trying to be funny or patronising.