"Daddy Daughter Date" AIBU?

[PyongyangKipperbang]

Friend is seperated. Her ex has the kids EOW and takes them out once a week each individually. All good. Except she insists on calling the time he spends with their dd as a Daddy Daughter Date. I cannot satisfactorily explain why but it winds me up! It just sounds wrong somehow, not in an inappropriate way dont get me wrong, just nauseating and twee and I get the ick whenever she says it. FYI when he does the same with her son she doesnt call that a Daddy Son Date. She doesnt say it about her and her dd when they go out but does call it a Mummy Son Date when its her and the boy.....vom....

AIBU for hating this phrase? I know IABU for getting so wound up over something that does not impact me in anyway!

YANBU at all. FAR from it.

It is a really bizarre thing to say.

What ho Pyong, always appreciate your posts, nice to see your own thread :)

Yuck, yuck., & triple-yuck.

I would not be able to be friends with someone who used this phrase.
It's so ... ignorant, sick-making, & groomy.

YANBU!

Yuck. “Dates” with children, your own or someone else’s, all kinds of creepy.

@Block...has 'sandra' taken over from Karen? Is it a more acceptable name??

Don't you lot have mate dates? Me and my friend used to say that all the time. I don't think date means anything sexual. It's just penciling in specific time with someone in your calendar.

Appointment is a bit too formal, no? :P

@Chocolatier9 I spent my teen years in the south, the girls were forced to carry a white Rose round school after learning about abstinence in health class. You’d think that this was something that happened in the 50s, but it was around 2005.

I knew people that went on daddy daughter dates and there was a daddy daughter dance at school, maybe a southern thing.

@MobyDicksTinyCanoe

For those frothing at the dad HE isn't the one saying it....

I agree it is cringey op. It seems to have floated over from America along with calling school discos ' proms' amd baby showers.

Just no.

Yep, one more thing to add to my list of things which make me roll my eyes.

The same as ‘Date Night’

Referring to a child as “mate” is also quite creepy as it refers to the person you reproduce with.

oh come on now. 'mate' in the UK more commonly means friend.

'date night' is cheesy but it's a couple going on a date so it's not weird as such.

Why are you so involved anyway. Got nothing better to do?

Where did I say I was involved in any way? Apart from being in the same place when someone asks where the DD is and she says "Oh Ex has taken her on a DDD!" I am not at all involved. Its just gives me the massive ick and I posted about it.