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At what age did you stop calling your DF 'daddy'?

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MsUndastood · 07/07/2009 21:04

Just curious because I have just seen my friend FB status going on about 'daddy' then I realised I still call my DF daddy too, in a fond way, I am 22

So how old are you if you still do and if not how old were you when you stopped?

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Hulababy · 08/07/2009 10:32

I can't imagine ever calling my parents by their actual names. A friend of ours does and I am always very about it. Would hate DD to do it.

EyeballsintheSky · 08/07/2009 10:32

I still do and I'm 37. They've always been mummy and daddy. Why would I change it?

didoreth · 08/07/2009 10:34

I'm 48, still call him daddy. Think its because I'm both welsh and privately educated.

HuffwardlyRudge · 08/07/2009 10:36

Still do and I'm 30.

ihavenosecrets · 08/07/2009 10:40

Agree with UQD.

It makes me cringe to hear an adult call their parents "Mummy" and "Daddy". Not that I come across it very often as I don't mix in those circles.

CyradisTheSeer · 08/07/2009 10:46

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holdingittogether · 08/07/2009 10:48

For me probably early teens. My own children call dh daddy but I'm getting shortened to mum a fair bit now, eldest is 9.
Dh's parents call themselves mummy and daddy when referring to each other in conversation with us which made me cringe to start with but got used to it over the years, along with their many other funny ways!

AprilMeadow · 08/07/2009 11:01

26ish - felt really weird to change to Dad even though my siblings stopped years before me and i am the eldest!

EyeballsintheSky · 08/07/2009 11:29

I don't get this. If that's what some people call their parents, why would it make you cringe to hear it?

And if I'm talking to my mother about my father, she'll say 'ask Daddy when you see him'. What is she supposed to say? They don't call each other it when they're on their own. I don't get all the cringing and judging that's going on. And we're pretty normal, not posh or privatedly educated Irish/English mix. Make what you will of that.

TwoHot · 08/07/2009 11:33

You dont have to stop!

Does it depend on social class and the area you live in as well? I can imagine some upper middle classes in the home counties still using daddy forever.

I hope my dd doesnt stop!

ShowOfHands · 08/07/2009 11:35

About 6/7.

When my Grandad was in the last stages of lung cancer, aged 78, he started to lose his voice and was unconscious a lot of the time. He was saying less and less and the final time he fell asleep (never regained consciousness), he opened his eyes briefly and said 'mummy'. She had died nearly 50 years previously on my Grandad's wedding day. It was the most poignant thing I have ever heard.

fluffyanimal · 08/07/2009 11:40

at all those who think there's something class related in it. Sounds like reverse snobbery to me. Why can't people just call their parents whatever they like?

Cies · 08/07/2009 11:44

I'm 27 and I and my sisters still do. Both my parents hate "Mum" and "Dad". My brother won't say Daddy, so is stuck with a comical "Father".

TsarChasm · 08/07/2009 11:51

I still do at 44 (and mummy ) It's not in a posh mummy/daddy way (cos I'm not ) - it's just what they are to me.

I do feel a bit daft in public though, if I'm honest, but it's too late to change now. I refer to them as mum and dad to others though.

ShowOfHands - your post about your grandad... That made me well up, did that.

edam · 08/07/2009 12:50

aw, showofhands, that's a poignant story. Would be nice if one could believe in an after life to think that he might have been reunited with her...

TitsalinaBumsquash · 08/07/2009 12:53

Ewwwww at daddy, that reminds me of spoilt rich kids ... "Daddy got me a new Convertable" type thing.

Although saying that i call my dad Pops. which is not any better.

TitsalinaBumsquash · 08/07/2009 12:55

Ok so im a "reverse nob" sorry!

I did however grow up watching such guff as Clueless and Beverly Hills 90210 and there was a lot of rich girls calling for Daddy to buy them something new in them....

TitsalinaBumsquash · 08/07/2009 12:56

Bollocks i am Not a "reverse NOB"

I AM A "REVERSE SNOB"!!!!!

FabBakerGirlIsBack · 08/07/2009 13:01

ShowOfHands

Just shows that there is nothing wrong with calling your parents mummy and daddy no matter how old you are.

jollyjoanne · 08/07/2009 13:09

Still mummy and daddy to me, and I imagine always will be. I am now struggling to remember to call them nanny and grandad.

tothesea · 08/07/2009 13:12

Show of hands - I am very moved by your story...
agree with Trefusis in N Ireland people use Mummy and Daddy all their lives and I actually find it very touching - we moved away from NI in the 1970's when I was about 7 and got teased mercilessly about many things (accent, being thick Paddy, being in the IRA etc etc)and one of them was still saying Mummy and Daddy, so obviously I stopped promptly. I will feel very sad the day DS stops

Flynnie · 08/07/2009 13:18

Still Mummy and Daddy and I am nearly twenty-eight. They have never been anything else.

Mind you my paternal Grandparents have always been Ma and Pa. It started as a joke, stuck and now even non family members use it!

BottySpottom · 08/07/2009 17:02

ShowofHands - I have heard of that before - I think it was maybe one of my Grandparents who called out for their mother on their death bed

Poledra · 08/07/2009 17:11

I can remember calling them mummy and daddy, so I guess I probably stopped when I was about 9 or 10. Also still go with Daaaaaaaaad when I want something.

I would like to know why my DD2 (3 yo) has started calling me Mumma recently - where has she got that one from??

dancingqueeen · 09/07/2009 11:34

I still call my parents Mummy and Daddy (29) and so do all my wider family. Its just normal to us, anything else would feel strange. Probably is a bit of a class thing, its not a conscious decision, just whats normal in the world you grow up in

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