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.

We are mum & dad to the dcs but mummy & daddy to the dog. I’ve a few Irish friends & it’s definitely mammy & daddy for them. Dcs went to a fairly posh school & a lot of their friends call their parents mummy, daddy, mater & pater.

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In the area I live in in the SE it would be perceived as affected to use the words Mummy and Daddy beyond secondary school age.
My 6 year old GS is still being encouraged to use Mummy but in a few years time, DD knows a child would be teased for less in an ordinary state primary school.
As for adults, I only know one family that do this ( the parents are 60's, children 30's) The parents background is working class but made good, their children attended private schools and all are quite wealthy) The parents have always encouraged the Mummy, daddy thing. It does actually make me cringe as it's uncommon in the area we live in

When we refer to our parents talking to other adults we don't say 'my mummy' or 'my daddy'.

I always found it weird on Brookside, where they frequently referred to "Me Mam" even when talking to their own siblings, who shared the same mother. Is that 'a thing' in Liverpool or was it just a Brookie thing? You wouldn't normally say "I'm going back to MY house' to people who also live there with you, would you?!

I’m with you op.
I have a sister who constantly refers to our Dad as “my Daddy”, especially on FB.

We are 2 of 4 children who all switched to calling him Dad at some point growing up.
He has died now but when he was ill and for some time after , and even now, she constantly referred to him as “my Daddy”.

I would perhaps be less annoyed and irked about it if she was the one who looked after him during his final years, but that was down to me alone. She barely even visited him.

And there is the ‘our mam’ said to sibling about said mum or ‘our kid’ sAid to the face of the younger sibling. Or even ‘our tom’ said to said Tom. Love regional difference.

I reckon you've been tarnished by porn and the way it was used sexually.
I call my Ddad 76, Dad, dadders, dads, daddy, twirly, biddy and Susan.
If you take out any porn connotations daddy isn't the odd one from the list

Didn’t the Queen call the QMother ‘mummy’?

Mammy and daddy here too. Or sometimes mama and papa. I’m Welsh but my mother’s Irish so I think that’s where it comes from as most people I know call them Mam and dad. If I talk about them to other people though it’s ‘my mother’ and ‘my father’.

I get that it’s one of your pet peeves but it’s sad that it’s ‘creepy’ for you. Also interesting that you find it a problem when women say it. Not digging at you, just quite interesting how distorted/sexualised innocent things have become in this day and age. I definitely think it must be the influence of porn.

I hate how, in mainstream media, it’s absolutely fine for mothers to care for their sons but men are called creepy/slated for showing the same care and nurture to their daughters. Take the ridiculous Gino D’Acampo story which was in the press yesterday, for instance:
www.hellomagazine.com/healthandbeauty/mother-and-baby/2019110880368/gino-dacampo-sparks-controvery-with-father-daughter-pic/

I call mine mama and daddy.

And oh dear, wouldn't be a thread without someone HAVING, simply HAVING to refer to their weird kinky sex life. Now that's just fucking grim.

Common in the R of Ireland too but it doesn’t worry me as much as women calling their DH “Hubble”.

Agh Hubbie not Hubble - bloody spellcheck!

My dm used to do it.

I cringed but perhaps normal at the time.

She called dgm mum though

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll, yes that's a Liverpool thing. You can leave the 'Me' bit off, if you are using Ma or Da, or Mam.

Liverpool was once called 'little Ireland' and we've evolved to speak a mix of Lancashire and Irish dialects, with a Liverpool twist put in.

My eldest DD often calls me, Ma, because she knows i hate it. She also refers to me as The Mother to my other DD's. As in 'has The Mother said what she's doing for her Birthday'.

I think once you mix in different communities, you get passed all the supposed use of words. My Nigerian friends use Mummy and Daddy about their parents and Mummy for the Eldest Sister and other older close women. They call their children, Mama and Papa (meaning esteemed/special).

Daddy does remind me of Hyacinth Bucket. But said in a different accent and it sounds fine.

I use both

But culturally daddy is more common (south Asian)

I blame The Beano for making Mummy & Daddy a source of cringe. Wasn't it Walter the Softie who called his mother 'Mummy'?

My teen DC call us Mummy & Daddy to our face, and Mum and Dad when referring to us. I like it. We also use Mummy & Daddy when talking to the 🐈

In contrast, my SILs call their parents by their first names, both to and about them, which always grates with me - I think it sounds precocious. Although to be fair, almost everything one of my SILs says grates on me, so that might be why.

But it's his name, to me. (Obviously he is not called Daddy on his birth cert.) At what age was I supposed to change his name?

I hope my daughter uses Mummy and Daddy til we die at a grand old age, frankly; I'll be terribly sad if/when she switches to Mum and Dad (naff). But then I'm quite posh and don't understand the cringe element.

When they were alive i always called mine Mummy and Daddy ( was mid 40’s when they died ) . My sister called them the same .

Mine will always be mummy & daddy - to me...

Never called my parents mummy or daddy (beyond the age of 5), and don’t know anyone who does.

I call my mum mum or mam or if I m feeling really cheeky mother lol. My dad left when I was young so I don't really remember what I called him. In my husbands country you say mama and papa and I refer to my fil as papa bit weirdly I call my MiL her name. I don't know why as I love her to bits.

My eldest calls me mammy or mommy (I blame the Americans over here ;)) my youngest calls me mamo.... I have no idea why but its his little name for me and I love it. I Do know when he is referring to me he sticks with mama.

I find it weird it bothers you so much 🤷🏼‍♀️

It's usually posh people who say that . Unless I've got that wrong now but it used to be the case. Not as bad as a grown woman calling her dad dadzy

No it’s utterly cringe. 🤢🤮

I've never heard Irish people say it (and I live in Ireland) although it is a common term in Northern Ireland. I find it a bit creepy but then it's just not what I'm used to.

If your age is in double figures calling your parents mummy and daddy is wrong.