creeepy

[cat_needs_coffee]

What's the deal with married couples with kids who call *each other* Mom and Dad, or worse "Mommy" and "Daddy". Is it just me, or does this creep you out too?

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[blue-lotus.livejournal.com]

No, it REALLY creeps me out as well.

[kazoogrrl.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. I understand, "Go ask Mom," but not when talking to that person directly, "Daddy, what do you think about having chicken for dinner?". Weird!

[kickarse.livejournal.com]

I totally find it creepy, but not nearly as creepy as couples who DON'T have kids that call each other that!! (And yes, I have known some.)

[dlightful.livejournal.com]

creepy!

I guess I'm the dissenting vote...

[quietdarkness.livejournal.com]

It gets to be a habit. When you are raising kids, you end up calling each other mommy and daddy in a family situation. "Go ask Daddy." "Hey DADDY,

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It gets to be a habit. When you are raising kids, you end up calling each other mommy and daddy in a family situation. "Go ask Daddy." "Hey DADDY, <insert child's name> is coming to ask you something!" When you go out, you try REAL HARD not to do that, but once again, if you have the kids with you, it happens. It even happens when the kids aren't around because it's a habit.

I think we've broken that habit now, but we're still calling each other mommy and daddy around the house because we have parrots, which are perpetual toddlers, and you end up treating them that way.

Creepy enough for you?

Re: I guess I'm the dissenting vote...

[ineedcoffee.livejournal.com]

No, whatever works for you, I can understand how old habits are hard to break. But to me there is a difference between telling your kid to "go ask Daddy" what he thinks, etc and adults who are say, in bed, or out in public sans kids/pets who still are referring to each other as "Mommy" and/or "Daddy".

(I get you with the pets thing, there's been plenty of times I've told the dog to "go get Daddy". yeah)

Re: I guess I'm the dissenting vote...

[kickarse.livejournal.com]

I get kinda creeped out when people call me Cecil's (our cat's) mommy. I am not her parent! I do not have a "furbaby"! I have a pet cat!

Besides, if anything, she's definitely more like a curmudgeonly roommate than a child.

Re: I guess I'm the dissenting vote...

[star-blue.livejournal.com]

i HATE the term "furbaby". it totally grosses me out. do people who say that class their children "skinbabies"? vile.

[dandelion5.livejournal.com]

Agreed- it's creepy. I've told my husband that he'd better never call me "Mom" once we have kids.

Of course, the flip side of that is my husband and his brother sometimes call their parents by their first names, but that's OK.

mom and dad

[applehangover.livejournal.com]

It seems less creepy IF they are over the age of 75 or so.

oops

[mylife1060.livejournal.com]

I SOOOO do that when Dave is around - when he and I call each other by our names, Anna starts calling us them too - and that bugs me. So, he is Daddy, and I am Momma. Actually, I am both. Que sera sera!

[star-blue.livejournal.com]

it really creeps me out. my mom and dad call each other "mom" and "dad" when they're talking to me about each other (like, "is dad out with the horses?" or whatever) but never TO each other.

my aunt's ex-husband remarried to a women 10 or 15 years younger, who happens to be a totally out of control by insanely wealthy cokehead, who calls him "Daddy". EW.