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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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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?

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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)

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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.