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.

@TSSDNCOP

My parents have always been mum & dad or mummy & daddy depending on context...(beloved Daddy passed away a few weeks ago & he was nearly ALWAYS called daddy as a term of endearment and dad to others)

In fact, a 10yo we know and see quite regularly often calls his parents Mum or Dad and they react crossly and insist that, no, it's MumMY or DadDY.

To me, it's just a normal transition for a child to make and our DS switched on his own from the age of about 5 - it didn't seem any odder to us than him starting to go to the toilet on his own once he was ready to.

You think yourwhims should dictate how people address their loved ones? Jog on, overbearing busybody

I call my parents mummy and daddy . Not creepy here at all .

I'm with you.

My mother used to do it into her 60s and it drove me mad. In her case it was either my Grandmother's Irish roots showing through or a pseudo-upper middle class affectation.

Knowing my Mother probably the latter.

Mummy & Daddy are nursery names...

I find it a bit odd, but simply because it isn't the norm in my family or social circle. I do understand though that there are geographical and class variations and that what sounds strange to me is completely normal to lots of other people. I don't see it as creepy, just a bit peculiar to hear adults using terms that are generally restricted to very young children in my world. The only person that annoys me is one of my siblings in law, who does not come from an area or a class where it is the norm, but who insists on Mummy and Daddy, both referring to their parents and themselves. They believe that they have "bettered themselves" and I feel this is something of an affectation. The same person insists that their adult children refer to me as Auntie Elbie, despite knowing that I do not like having my name shortened or being called Auntie. My real nephews and nieces just call me Elbowed so it really irritates me to have to put up with this fake jolly hockey sticks rubbish from people I am not even related to. They actually call my children Cousin Thissy and Cousin Thatty both in speech and writing which I do think is downright weird. I have never known anyone else do that and it feels like we are escapees from The Famous Five or something.

I call my dad 'pops'.... no idea why or when exactly it started but definitely in the last 10 years, I'm 41.
Just feels more affectionate as he is the best man in the entire world.

We are mummy and daddy still. I suspect we always will be. Mother in law is. Most of our friends are.
I hate the words mum and dad, makes me cringe.

Listen to Beyonce and Usher (so take issue with you on that point) and call my mum mummy and my dad is daddy

You don't hear it so much in Dublin but it's very much a thing in the rest of Ireland. And 'Mummy' for Mum is quite upstream troutish.

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.

That's not how it's used in Ireland. You would use mammy/mummy when talking to the 4 year old, but you would say 'your mother' if talking to someone older about their mother.

And it's actually more likely to be Mammy in Ireland than Mummy...

Op I get you, I cringe every time I hear an adult say mummy and daddy, my ex was Irish and that's what he called them. I say mum and dad but most of the time I just call them by their first names

Our grown up children call us Mummy and Daddy but refer to us as Mum and Dad ...it’s cool so relax !!

Agree it’s creepy and icky. Shudder.

Icky?

Why?

It’s only odd to the ear of some if they imagined themselves saying it. Once you even begin to realise other people/cultures/areas use those words, it’s just difference you’re hearing.
I like hearing Irish friends saying mummy/daddy/mammy and others using ma and da. I also think it would be ridiculous if I said those.

No doubt they hear me (mum/dad and ma/pa/paps) and think it’s stiff or formal or something. If we were making fun of our parents we would sarcastically call them mater and pater - they absolutely hated it which was kind of the point.
I’m culturally American and even as a young child when I moved to uk found mummy/daddy to be something I couldn’t say ! It was one of the first big differences I experienced.

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

This.

Its not creepy its sweet..its fucking porn and this 'Daddy and little girl/boy' craze thats ruining it for everyone.

The problem is the word has been sexualised by adults......not the fact that some adult children still use it.

In fact, a 10yo we know and see quite regularly often calls his parents Mum or Dad and they react crossly and insist that, no, it's MumMY or DadDY

When my son was 4 he randomly started calling me mum and I thought it was cute and cool at the same time When a friends son the same age started doing the same she blamed me for it and was heartbroken (lighthearted of course!)

I'm a 44yo that calls her father daddy 🤷🏻‍♀️. My mum is from the ROI, always called her father daddy. It's just the word we use. Not sure what there is to get to so het up about

If you want to talk about sexualising, how bad is this!!

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