Anonymous wrote:Ivanka, is that you?

Even if I did call him daddy in person, I would never do it in front of someone that I work with. Have some common sense, O P.

Exactly!! How old are you OP?

Anonymous wrote:Super weird! I admit I judge people that do this and think they lack independence. The normal course of kids name for their father is dada, daddy, and then dad. Perhaps that cultural but it is what I know.

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I do sometimes. Also, my dad is 75 and when he’s talking with his brothers they all still refer to their father as Daddy. Not Southern, family has been in DC a long time.

Ivanka, is that you?

Even if I did call him daddy in person, I would never do it in front of someone that I work with. Have some common sense, O P.

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

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

Yes, you cant think individually. Do what your parents did.

I'm 47 and still call my father Daddy. I am southern, and I think it's more common there.

With my mother, I went from Mama to Mother when I was in my teens, and now I use Mom/Mommy/Mother interchangeably.

I'm equally cose to both my parents, so I don't know why I changed what I call my mother but not my father.

My kids are late teens/early 20s, amd they've all switched from Mama/Daddy to Mother/Father. And sometimes our eldest calls my husband Papá (according to him, whrn she wants something 😁).

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Anonymous wrote:Super weird! I admit I judge people that do this and think they lack independence. The normal course of kids name for their father is dada, daddy, and then dad. Perhaps that cultural but it is what I know.

I’m a PP who calls my parents Mommy and Daddy; I never changed their names and it never occurred to me that you were supposed to! Why wouldn’t you just stick with whatever you “consciously” chose in first grade? Weird.

I guess I matured out of it, like so many other things since first grade.

I am Latina and call my dad 'Papi" which is daddy in Spanish. I call my mom "Mami" which is mommy in Spanish. they have never been anything else to me. occasionally, I call them mom or dad.

My parents have always been “Mama and Daddy”. I’m 51. If talking about them to someone outside of my family, I refer to them as “Mom and Dad”.

I do and I am Southern. A boyfriend long ago questioned it and said I sounded like a child. He also referred to his mother "mommy" so needless to say we didn't last long. He was not Southern, by the way.

Anonymous wrote: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.

This! I didn't have a close relationship with my father and cannot remember when I transitioned from daddy to dad, but I'm sure I was quite young. At 12, DD still calls my husband daddy at home, and I think it's sweet. I'm mama.

I'll bet the people who are weirded out by daddy are the same people who think you should never kiss your child on the lips or let them sit on your lap past the age of three.

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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.

I call my parents Mom and Dad, as does my DH. My kids still call us Mama and Daddy (5th and 3rd grade). I have told them we are fine if they ever do want to go to Mom and Dad, or just in front of their friends, or whatever. They completely recoiled and vetoed the notion 😂.

As an aside, I think it’s weird to call your own dad Grandpa. I’ve never heard that.

Anonymous wrote:Super weird! I admit I judge people that do this and think they lack independence. The normal course of kids name for their father is dada, daddy, and then dad. Perhaps that cultural but it is what I know.

I’m a PP who calls my parents Mommy and Daddy; I never changed their names and it never occurred to me that you were supposed to! Why wouldn’t you just stick with whatever you “consciously” chose in first grade? Weird.

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Anonymous wrote:No.

i think it's very icky for anyone over the age of 6 to call their parents mommy and daddy.

Agree

Disagree

Super weird! I admit I judge people that do this and think they lack independence. The normal course of kids name for their father is dada, daddy, and then dad. Perhaps that cultural but it is what I know.