Mom and Dad not Mommy and Daddy

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28 Dec 2010, 3:38 am

This is a thing that kind of annoys me. When you're talking to your five year old or six year old you should be using mom and dad. And that's what you should use for your child no matter what. Its saddening and kind of ret*d when a kid is thirteen and because his parents kept calling themselves mommy and daddy, he calls his parents at thirteen mommy and daddy.
Say mom and dad. And treat your child like an adult. Not like an adult. Treat them like they are growing into adults, don't talk down to them, and don't use baby words.

Remember Mom and Dad, not mommy and daddy.



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28 Dec 2010, 3:49 am

I'm 20 and I still call my parents Mommy and Daddy. I don't do it because they make me; I do it as part of a larger, more pathetic attempt to maintain the illusion of still having a childhood. :|



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28 Dec 2010, 3:54 am

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I'm 20 and I still call my parents Mommy and Daddy. I don't do it because they make me; I do it as part of a larger, more pathetic attempt to maintain the illusion of still having a childhood. :|


Yeah well, then you're probably one of the people I roll my eyes at.

Because I think its ret*d. And it annoys me.

Its mom and dad. Mom and dad.

I'm tired of hearing young mothers go, "oh my god your daddy made you lunch,"

No its "your father made you lunch" or "dad made you lunch"

Just cause they are a child, doesn't mean you coo at them. I know they are cute and its something you want to do, but you shouldn't.

This is one of my pet peeves, that seems rather ret*d to people. But it annoys. Whenever I hear someone use Mommy and Daddy, whether its the parents themselves or the children. Its like fingernails on a chalkboard. It grates my every nerve.



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28 Dec 2010, 4:26 am

In parts of the south, many grown men still call their father's "daddy".



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28 Dec 2010, 4:44 am

Chronos wrote:
In parts of the south, many grown men still call their father's "daddy".


Ewwww.



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28 Dec 2010, 5:00 am

Not this part of the south...heck I haven't even SEEN that in Polk county.

I agree though, middle school kids are cussing each other out and then taking mommy and daddy to school functions and asking to be excused to go pee-pee. It's annoying as hell there is just a point when cute becomes nails on a chalkboard and it's sometime between 5 and 10.


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28 Dec 2010, 5:10 am

Pistonhead wrote:
Not this part of the south...heck I haven't even SEEN that in Polk county.

I agree though, middle school kids are cussing each other out and then taking mommy and daddy to school functions and asking to be excused to go pee-pee. It's annoying as hell there is just a point when cute becomes nails on a chalkboard and it's sometime between 5 and 10.


Agreed with this comment.



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28 Dec 2010, 5:18 am

I cant stand cotton balls. They make a sound that is annoying to me and hurts my teeth. However I do not expect everyone to stop using them simply because they bother me.



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28 Dec 2010, 5:33 am

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I cant stand cotton balls. They make a sound that is annoying to me and hurts my teeth. However I do not expect everyone to stop using them simply because they bother me.


I know that annoying sound. It's similar to the sound of squeezing small styrofoam BB's in spandex. I am cringing as I type.



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28 Dec 2010, 5:39 am

In England it's Mum and Dad. :D



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28 Dec 2010, 6:30 am

In Ireland it's Ma and Da
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28 Dec 2010, 9:39 am

wow, so you want to weigh in on whether or not i should breastfeed and for how long? or maybe tell me if i should have my sons circumcised or not?

my 14 yr old still uses mommy and daddy. quite natural since he has 7 and 4 yr old younger siblings that still use them. over years of parenting, and years of referring to each other as mommy and daddy, we call each other that, too. it wasnt an intentional change, but over a decade of using a nickname tends to make it stick.

one of my pet peeves is people who try to tell me how to parent and raise my children. especially if they have never been there themselves. it annoys me. so i expect you to stop.

did it work?


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28 Dec 2010, 10:03 am

liloleme wrote:
I cant stand cotton balls. They make a sound that is annoying to me and hurts my teeth. However I do not expect everyone to stop using them simply because they bother me.


:lol: Cotton balls hurt my teeth too! I thought I was the only one.

I also agree with the rest of your statement. I had no problem calling my parents mommy and daddy. I actually kind of liked it. I also don't care what my own kids call me, as long as it's not something disrespectful. :wink:



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28 Dec 2010, 10:28 am

I call dad dad,

wish I was a chick so I can call him daddy.



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28 Dec 2010, 1:13 pm

azurecrayon wrote:
wow, so you want to weigh in on whether or not i should breastfeed and for how long? or maybe tell me if i should have my sons circumcised or not?

my 14 yr old still uses mommy and daddy. quite natural since he has 7 and 4 yr old younger siblings that still use them. over years of parenting, and years of referring to each other as mommy and daddy, we call each other that, too. it wasnt an intentional change, but over a decade of using a nickname tends to make it stick.

one of my pet peeves is people who try to tell me how to parent and raise my children. especially if they have never been there themselves. it annoys me. so i expect you to stop.

did it work?


I agree! I don't think that anyone has the right to dictate to me what my son feels comfortable calling myself or my partner as a term of endearment, just as I don't have the right to push my ideas onto others. Personally, there are plenty of things in this world that annoy the hell out of me, but that doesn't mean that I have the right to tell someone to stop doing them...to each their own, and as long as they are not harming anyone else, what the hell difference does it make? I have been out lots of times and heard things that grate on my nerves and make me grit my teeth, but I just try to ignore them the best I can, because after all, I only have control over my own actions.

OP, I can respect your opinion and that this is irritating for u, but if u don't like what my son calls me, then that's a personal problem - yours, not mine.



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28 Dec 2010, 1:16 pm

Quit telling people how to raise their kids. There are more important things when it comes to that. As log as they're bringing them up well, who cares whether the kids say dad or daddy?