I call my dad daddy. I'm in my 40s. We are very close

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Anonymous wrote:Personally I find it weird, my dad was never "daddy" to me, certainly not after the age of 3 or so.

I was super taken aback when I lived in the deep south for a few years and would her grown men calling their father "daddy." It sounds immature and implies a willful subservience that I would never want for myself or my own kids.

Why would you equate the word “Daddy” with subservience? Sounds like YOU have “Daddy issues”. It’s a term of endearment, nothing more.

Oh, don't be coy. You know full well the connotations of the word, since you used a common phrase exemplifying those connotations that didn't appear in my post at all.

It's perfectly fine for it to be a term of endearment. I'm not going around casting Freudian aspersions on people who use it. But because it is the most childish of all of the options that exist for a relationship that is literally the definition of paternalistic, I do think that it has that implication.

Anonymous wrote:Personally I find it weird, my dad was never "daddy" to me, certainly not after the age of 3 or so.

I was super taken aback when I lived in the deep south for a few years and would her grown men calling their father "daddy." It sounds immature and implies a willful subservience that I would never want for myself or my own kids.

Why would you equate the word “Daddy” with subservience? Sounds like YOU have “Daddy issues”. It’s a term of endearment, nothing more.

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Anonymous wrote: No. Stopped that when I was 6 yo
Then he was Dad.
Now he is grandpa.

Why do you call him grandpa if he is your dad?

Maybe there were some uncomfortable family secrets revealed in PP's adulthood.

Anonymous wrote: No. Stopped that when I was 6 yo
Then he was Dad.
Now he is grandpa.

Why do you call him grandpa if he is your dad?

Personally I find it weird, my dad was never "daddy" to me, certainly not after the age of 3 or so.

I was super taken aback when I lived in the deep south for a few years and would her grown men calling their father "daddy." It sounds immature and implies a willful subservience that I would never want for myself or my own kids.

No. Stopped that when I was 6 yo
Then he was Dad.
Now he is grandpa.

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.

Myself and my kids are quite independent, one doc one lawyer, they still call their dad, daddy and me, mommy.
What you known is quite limited so you should STFU.

My father is truly my best friend. Yes, he’s “Hi Daddy!” otherwise it’s dad.

I talk to my mother a lot on the phone. Once in awhile, she'll put my dad on, and I always say, "hi, daddy!" Thoroughout conversation, I think I just say "dad." I usually call my mother "mom" but sometimes say "mommy."

My college-aged daughter calls me mommy. Her teacher in middle school once heard her call me that and said, "oh, that's so sweet." She's kind of a loud-mouth kid, so I don't think he ever saw her sweet side. My high-schooler daughter calls me "mother"

We're not southern (New Yorkers by birth; kids are DC by birth)

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.

+100

Anonymous wrote: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.

But Latinos also often call their children Mami/papi which people never do in English so not really an equivalent comparison

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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 mean, generally these kinds of traditions are passed down in families, yes. And it's cultural/regional as well.

I don't remember calling him Daddy; it was always Dad.

Also, a grown adult should not use baby talk, particularly at work.

To op- do you also say mommy?