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.

Yes, till the day he died at age 90. I was 52.

Yes. I'm 40. I call my mom mama.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I (and our siblings) - call our parents - Mummy and Papa. We are in our 50s and our siblings range in age from late 40s to early 60s. My ILs and parents are in their 70s to 80s.

My kids call me - Mom. Mumma or Ma. They call DH - Dad or Daddy. They are in their teens and twenties.

Are you European?

No. Indian.

But it must be the remnant of the British colonial influence and also us being bilingual and speaking English. My grandparents were called - Ma-ji and Pita-ji, Amma-ji and Babu-ji (ji/jee is just to denote respect) by my parents. So that was very much in keeping with Hindi speaking Indians.

I think if we would have remained in India, my kids would have called me Mom, Mumma, Ma and Mummy. My husband would have been called Dad, Daddy and Papa. It would be a mixture of everything they know and hear because of globalization. I remember growing up I used to sometime call my mom "Ammi" which was what my Muslim best friend called her own mom. Or "Ammi Jaan" which was sweeter still because Ammi means Mother and Jaan means Heart.

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.

I called him Dad, Vati, and Pop. I miss him.

Anonymous wrote:I call him Papa, which is the French word for Dad/Daddy (there's no difference).

There definitely is a cultural/linguistic difference. In French the options are essentially père (formal or the equivalent to “father”) or papa (which most people use these days as an informal alternative regardless of age). Unlike English where in lieu of the formal “father” most adults/adolescents use Dad informally and Daddy tends to be reserved for little kids. That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with an adult using the term if it’s their preference, but it’s definitely less common (and might get some head turns).

It’s a southern thing. I remember my 50 something parents, aunts and uncles calling my grandfather Daddy.

Daddy when I was a kid. dad when I was a young adult. Now that he’s 90 I call him daddy again.

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.

No, I don't.

I think it's weird and rude of your co-worker to let you know what they thought, though.

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

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.”

I call my parents mommy and daddy and I’m 38 years old.

Big Daddy

I call my father either Dad or Daddy. I call my mom either Mom or Mommy. If I'm speaking to one of my kids then I say "your grandfather" or "your grandmother" usually.