Do you still call your father "Daddy"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I've called him John since I was a teenager.

I called him Daddy until I was 7. Then I didn't see him until I was 14 or 15 so there was a 7 or 8 year gap.

Sorry.

[Anonymous]

I say “dad”......but every once in awhile I say “daddy.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mother who is American called her father daddy until he died in his seventies.

My husband who is not American calls his parents mommy and daddy as do all his siblings. They don’t hunk it’s weird at all. And culturally other people who are close to an older woman (think family friend) call that woman mommy as a term of endearment.

THIS....Caribbean woman here (55). Like your husband, I/we do all of the above. My young adults (23+) still calls me mommy; it’s who I’ve always been and I love it.

[Anonymous]

Not Southern, though he is. It is Mommy and Daddy for me and my siblings, all in our 30's. None of us refer to them as that when talking to another person though, as some Southerners, including my father, do (Well you remember my Daddy was the one who..."). So it's pick up the phone, "Hi, Daddy!" but when talking about him or my mother I would reference them as I just did. My Father/Mother or my Mom/Dad. I had a friend from Boston who used to always just say, "Dad thinks that...." and I always thought that was as odd as she thought my Mommy/Daddy was. He's not MY dad!

[Anonymous]

Yes, I call them Mommy and Daddy, although my mother gets a lot of “Maaaaa!” when she’s annoying. It’s their “names”. That is my mother’s family’s custom. My dad referred to his parents as Mom and Pop. If I’m talking to you about them, it is “my mother and father”. My son switched to “Mom” and “Dad”, but I still tell him “ go ask Daddy” when I refer to his father to him.

Not Southern.

[Anonymous]

My dad passed when I was 23. I called him Dad, Daddy, Papa Bear, P. Bear, and Sparky.

[Anonymous]

I have not since I was a young child and I think it's odd and childish to hear an adult say it. It sounds either immature or petulant depending on the tone.

My DD (age 18) has a friend who uses "Daddy" and it gets very odd reactions from their group of friends. My co-worker will talk to her late teen sons and say "I'll have Daddy send you money" and it makes my skin crawl. I have no idea if the boys call him that directly.

[Anonymous]

I’m 54, my father is 75, and yes I call him daddy. My kids call my husband and I, mommy and daddy, they are in their twenties. My kids call my father, granddaddy, which is what I called my grandfather and great grandfather.

[Anonymous]

No. I switched from Daddy to Dad at some point in late elementary school. Same with my kids.

My mother, however, still refers to her long-dead father as "Daddy". She was 16 when he died and hadn't stopped referring to him that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, I've called him John since I was a teenager.

I called him Daddy until I was 7. Then I didn't see him until I was 14 or 15 so there was a 7 or 8 year gap.

Sorry.

Eh, water under the bridge. I haven't talked to him in like five years. Expectations are non-existent at this point. I focus on the people who do want relationships with me.

[Anonymous]

Admit it, those who have problem with other's calling her father "daddy" do not have close relationship with their fathers or they watch too much porn.

[Anonymous]

No. It's not always weird sounding, but it is more often than daddiers seem to realize. Especially if you do it in a sing-songy voice. Hurk.

[Anonymous]

I do it half and half, its what I've always called him <shrug>

[Anonymous]

I do think it's weird and I'd question the appropriateness of your relationship with your father, but never to your face.

OTOH, my friend calls her husband "Daddy" almost exclusively (a carryover from when kids were little) and I think that's hot.

[Anonymous]

I'm the pp who said it is "icky."

I'm sure it's cultural, but really it's not as if I like or approve of all aspects of every culture. There are many cultural differences that I find off putting or even disgusting. This is one of them I guess.

And I also just remembered my high school boyfriend (and yes, he was of a different culture than me) and his brother called their parents mommy and daddy. Even then I thought it was weird.
I mean, he was my boyfriend and I thought of him as an amazing stallion of a man and it was really weird to hear him talking to his brother about "mommy and daddy."