People who refer to a father figure as "daddy"

[moni_calla 0]

I refer to my own father as Dad though I can remember calling him Daddy as an adult, but I have small children and my son and his dad have the same name so sometimes when trying to differentiate I will say the daddy not the baby! My kids find that hilarious so it usually causes a riot!

Also the US is very different than Canada especially with speech and common terms, another big one is most people in the US refer to their mother as MOMMA uh....OK

[domegirl1978 1]

Oh and this is funny. My future mother in law calls my fiance PAPI. LOL!

She says it as a term of endearment though and it sounds cute when she calls him that. I make fun of him all the time and talk to him like his mom does to him. He laughs and blushes every time. HAHA.

He's just lucky I don't call him Andy like his mom does. He HATES that...His name is Andre and like to be called either Andre or Dre. ANDY! HAHAHA!

[Misty1979 0]

I admit to using Daddy as well. I think it all stemmed from the whole using it only when you want something thing...then it just kinda stuck. I can't remember the last time I just called him "Dad."

On a side note though, every so often I say it and it does give me a creepy feeling lol...but I'm just so used to using that term now, it saddens me to change it back to plain old "Dad" since I started using "Daddy" long before the perverted version of it was being used.

And no, I would NEVER call my husband "Daddy" either, that's just plain weird.

[JillA 2]

I don't think it's an American thing at all, I know alot of my friends still call their Dad Daddy. I think it just depends on you and your family perhaps! I got used to it because my Mom called her Dad Daddy until the day he died at age 85. It was used in a loving sense, "I love you Daddy".

[Sprailenes 47]

My aunt is quite the drama queen and at the funeral of my grandpa when they brought him out of the building, she cried out 'daddy' and we all burst out into laughter at her. I mean my grandpa wasn't the "daddy" type.. whatever type that is and we just don't speak like that to eachother in my family. It is still to this day a huge joke and whenever someone talks about it we all burst into laughter.

It felt good to laugh at that point, and I am sure my grandpa would have laughed at her too.

It reminds me of baby speak more than sexual speak. I don't have a dad but I sure as hell never call my mom: "mommy" but to each their own I guess.

[domegirl1978 1]

Oh see, thats one I do too. I call my mom either MA, MOM, MOTHER or MOMMY. It all depends on what the conversation is at the time.

HAHA! Has anyone ever seen the family guy episode where Stewie is harassing Lois with the "mom" thing??

I do this to my mom all the time. HAHAHA!

[jundp 191]

It was on last night!

For some reason our mother was always Mother or Mama. Never Mommy. And come to think of it, my sisters and I often refer to each other as "Sister."

My god my family's weird.

[Sprailenes 47]

My son calls me mommy when he wants something... he's 10 though. I am hoping he's not 25 and still calling me mommy. Mom will be just fine. Everytime he says: "Mommy" I ask him what he wants.

For the longest time he just called me by my first name and it seemed to bother everyone but myself. It is quite normal, especially for only children to call their parents what they hear everyone else call them and I am not one to insist on being called: mom. When he was about 7 he started calling me mom more and more.

[trailmix 77]

I only ever used 'Dad' when referring to my Father. When I was a teenager I started calling both my parents by their first names and I still do. My Father didn't like it much, my Mom could care less - I call her mom sometimes.

[Udella&Wiz 325]

Don't see anything weird about it, it's pretty common for little kids to call their parents mommy or mummy and their dad...daddy.

My nieces are young and they still refer to my brother as Daddy....now also as we've all gotten older we refer to our own father as Dad.

My own 17 yr old daughter calls me Mum or Mummy - depending on her mood (I've been called other not-so-nice things, but we won't talk about that ) In her sillier moods I get called Mummikins....but then she gets Gazikins right back!

Might be a little too cutesey if I were to call my dad..Daddy at this stage of life, but to each his/her own

[thetreble 19]

Don't see anything weird about it, it's pretty common for little kids to call their parents mommy or mummy and their dad...daddy.

Yes, kids. It's perfectly fine for children to do it. I just don't think it's appropriate for adults. Again, I don't think it is wrong, it obviously is a family thing.

I'm surprised here at how many of you have dad's that don't mind you calling them daddy. I think if I were to call my dad "daddy" he'd look at me funny.

Of course, there is also the expression and term "baby daddy" now as well.

Do any of you find it interesting that the expression "daddys little girl" is often used but I don't think I have ever heard the expression "daddy's little boy". Just kind of gender orientated it seems.

Edited May 20, 2009 by thetreble

[Kathryn41 3,205]

It is rather a definite thing in the south to refer to parents as 'Mother and Daddy'. My husband still refers to his Dad as 'Daddy" and his mother is only 'Mother' - never Mom or anything like that. My parents were always Mom and Dad. Now, my mother in law refers to her (now-deceased) husband as Papa and our grandchildren call my husband Papa Joe to differentiate him from Joe's father, who was Papa. Now, I used to call my grandmother Nana to differentiate her from my grand grandmother who was gramma - and I get called Nana by my grandkids. It does sound very strange to hear Joe and his sisters- who are all in their late 50s and early 60s referring to 'Daddy' though - it sounds so childish to my ears.

[rexalite 0]

So it's creepy to call your own father daddy because that's what women call men in porn movies? I think you are attaching the creepy to the wrong part of that equation. Obviously in some regions/cultures it is perfectly normal and common to call your father "Daddy". If that weirds you out, then maybe you've got some daddy issues of your own to deal with! I also refer to my husband as "Daddy" when talking to our son. When I talk to my husband directly I call him by his name.

[trailmix 77]

So it's creepy to call your own father daddy because that's what women call men in porn movies? I think you are attaching the creepy to the wrong part of that equation. Obviously in some regions/cultures it is perfectly normal and common to call your father "Daddy". If that weirds you out, then maybe you've got some daddy issues of your own to deal with! I also refer to my husband as "Daddy" when talking to our son. When I talk to my husband directly I call him by his name.

[Sprailenes 47]

So it's creepy to call your own father daddy because that's what women call men in porn movies? I think you are attaching the creepy to the wrong part of that equation. Obviously in some regions/cultures it is perfectly normal and common to call your father "Daddy". If that weirds you out, then maybe you've got some daddy issues of your own to deal with! I also refer to my husband as "Daddy" when talking to our son. When I talk to my husband directly I call him by his name.

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