Do you still call your father "Daddy"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I'm 40. I call my mom mama.

Same. And both of my parents called their parents Mama and Daddy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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."

Want to know what's really icky?

This: he was my boyfriend and I thought of him as an amazing stallion of a man

In high school. SHudder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m 48 and call my dad Daddy, Dad, and Daddy-o.

+1. I also throw in a Pop, Popsicle and Dadman on occasion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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."

Want to know what's really icky?

This: he was my boyfriend and I thought of him as an amazing stallion of a man

In high school. SHudder.

Ahh high school days! I think we all look back and have shudder-worthy memories.

[Anonymous]

I miss my dad.

[Anonymous]

No, it wasn't a term I remember using for him. His a little stiff and he was always "Dad".

But whatever works!

[Anonymous]

My mother's siblings use mommy and daddy to refer to them but a sort of gutteral "mAh" or "pah" when speaking directly to them. I think it's a weird combo of their dialect in their language of origin and English being 2nd language that the older kids experienced? It's kind of funny

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Your instincts on what is hot vs what is inappropriate is backwards AF

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dad called me at work and I answered, "Hi Daddy" which my co-worker thought was weird and babyish. I thought this was common. I don't have a daddy complex. It just seems strange at this point to call him Dad.

Dad here. I think that's nice. I would love to be called "Daddy" when my kids are all grown up and I am old. My wife (in 50s') still calls her father "Pappi." I don't know where that came from...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The worst is when women refer to their fathers as Daddy when talking to other people. “Daddy didn’t like the idea of me driving from Charleston to Nashville by myself, so he bought me a plane ticket.”

This! It only sounds weird to me if someone is talking about their parents to other people.

[Anonymous]

I call my parents Mommy and Daddy and we’re not even super close. Someone once heard me calling my Mommy and said it was strange. I seriously never realized people “change” what they call their parents at some point in childhood. Is there like an age when people switch over to Mom and Dad?

[Anonymous]

I call my parents by the nicknames my son gave them, so does my DH. I noticed my brother doing it too. It's what our family has always done. My grandfather was referred to by his grandpa name by everyone, same with my grandma.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I'm 40. I call my mom mama.

Same. And both of my parents called their parents Mama and Daddy.

Same here. I'm 42.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I call my parents Mommy and Daddy and we’re not even super close. Someone once heard me calling my Mommy and said it was strange. I seriously never realized people “change” what they call their parents at some point in childhood. Is there like an age when people switch over to Mom and Dad?

Yes i think many (most?) American kids start using Dad and Mom when they reach grade school and are conscious of sounding babyish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

It's only hot when Kelly Ripa refers to Mark that way.