JFF ~ What Do You Call Your Dad? What Do Your Kids Call Your Dad?

My Dad is Dad, Da', Daddy.... to me

For my son... it's his (my dad's) own durn fault. He went on a campaign to be called Big Bad Bubba Bob (instead of Papa/Grand da/etc.)... so now it's just Bob. <rolls eyes> Big high muckety muck military man called by his first name by a small child. Not only that, but as a TITLE. That's my Bob! Reaping and sowing there dad. Give a toddler an option that's 10 miles long and he's going to choose the shortest variation they can find. Guess he lucked out in not being 'named' Big or Bad.

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I always call my dad "Daddy"

His last name is Gunn so wanted to be "Pop Gunn"

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Biological father: if speaking to him, I call him "dad" but if talking to anyone else, I call him "Michael". My dad who adopted me, I call "dad".
My boys call my fil "Grandpa __" and my dad "Pops". My mom, for some reason, is "Bugga" because that's what my oldest named her.

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I call him Dad. So plain!
My kids call him "Grandawg" When he first got in the oil field bussiness, he was a yard dog and everyone just called him "dawg" or "dawgman" (that was like 20 years ago) and the name just stuck, but when he became a grandpa (10 years ago) it got changed to Grandawg! Even his friends call him that :o) My mom is Mima (Mee-ma) A family I used to nanny for called their grandparents Bubba and Sparkle....I thought that was cute!

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from what I can remember, I always called my dad: dad. He is no longer living.

My kids call their dad: daddy or dad or stinker Daddy. :)
Hubby calls his dad: dad.
My Kids called my dad: Papa Warren and my husband's Dad: Papa.

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We have extra grand parents because my hubs mom and dad are split.

So, to help them out we have named my mom and dad Gma and Gpa Sadie, after there dog. My hubs mom and step-dad are grandma and grandpa Kitty, because they have 6 mancoons. My hubs dad and step mom are Gma and Gpa Danelle...They also are referred to as Gmop and Gpops.

I have always referred to my dad as daddio....or cool cat...He is a musican and a big ole hippie. He still wears his big thick military issued glasses from back when he was in the army...He is rarely without his tye-dye on..and he has a rattle snake skull he wears in one ear when he is out preforming...so cool cat fits him.

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nothing. I've never met him.

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I still call my dad, daddy, thats just who he is to me.
He likes the grandkids to call him Poppy. I have no idea where that orginated thats just what we called my grandpa.

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I call my Father "Dad" and my kids call him Sandman or Gram-pa (his name is Sandy).
I call my step-father Ron and my kids call him Pa-Pa Ron.
Hubby calls his Father "Dad" and kids call him Grandpa Jim.

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My dad is Dad and my kids call him Grandpa Grandpa. Both of our mothers have remarried and my grandpas are still alive. That is how they differentiate.

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we have a Pawpaw. So country, I know.

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I'm 39 and I still call my dad, "daddy".

Our kids call my dad: Papa Charlie, (which for whatever reason I think is so darned cute!), and my FIL, Papa S....his last name.

My DH's cousin's kids call their Gpa: Bumpo and I love that too!

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I call my Dad "Dad" or "Daddy", and my kids call him "Paw Paw"

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I call my Dad, Dad. Nothing too creative there! My son calls him Poppop!

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My dad is awesome!
On a regular day I just call him Dad or Grandpa. When we are joking around, which also happends on most regular days, I call him Padre or Paw. When I call him because someone is sick I ask for Dr. Dad. I have never, ever called him by his first name. That would seem so weird to me!
My kids call him PawPaw or Grandpa. He loves either one. I think he would say call me whatever you want, just keep calling me. He is the greatest.

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I call my dad, dad or on a day when I am feeling honory he is called Grumps. My son calls him Pawpaw.

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My Dad use to joke that depending upon what I wanted or needed I called him something different. It was Daddy if I wanted something that I knew I probably wouldn't get and the it was a drawn out "Daaady" it was Daddy regular for most anything else. It was Dad if I new I was in trouble or being told to do something "yes Dad" And if I was mad at him which was very rare it was "my Father wont let me...." LOL kinda fun!

My kids to Dad and Daddly depending and sometimes just Da

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I call him Dad and my kids call him Papa

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We are pretty boring...I call my dad Dad and Daddy if I want something. :) And he knows when I call him Daddy to just ask...what do you want? Although, now he appreciates it because I'm not a kid asking for money or things! My daughter calls him Grandpa.

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I call my dad 'Dad' and my dad is PawPaw to my kids. Hubby calls his dad 'Dad' and his father is Grandpa to our kids.

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I call my dad Papa. I called one of my grandfathers Opa, and the other (who I never met) déduška.

My father is Grandpa to my kids. He's waiting for the kids to pick a "better" name.

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I call him Dad, my kids call him Opa.

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Daddy, always and forever. Even when I was 35 and my mother referred to him as John when she was speaking to me within his earshot, he corrected her and said, 'No, Daddy!' He died recently and my heart breaks three times a day when I think of him. Our children called him Poppy.

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I call my dad "Dad" or sometimes "Daddy"
My dad instists on being called "Gampa" not a fan since my son has a speech delay and took a while to say "Grandpa" correctly, but I let it happen ... I call him "Grandpa" when I am talking to him around my son so he learns his title, sadly my son only sees him once a year.

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I call my dad, Dad or Pop. My daughter calls him Grandpa, sometimes Grandma but she's only 2 so she forgets the difference. My FIL has passed away but he would of been Abuelo, or some form of it. My mother's father was Poppy when he was alive.

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My father was called Papa by my kids. We called our grandfather who lived to age 96 Pop M____ his last name. My children called him by the same name.

My husband was called Opa by our grandchildren. My father's father was called Grandpa. My German speaking grandparents switched to English names and everything else as part of being Americans. And they spoke English really well so they chose to be called grandma and grandpa by all of us.

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My dad has passed away but I used to call him "Apa" - Korean for dad. My hubby calls his dad the same. Our 2 year old calls FIL "Paw Paw" b/c he can't pronounce Grandpa. So cute to hear :)

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I call him dad :)
When he became a grandfather he said he wanted to be called granddad. Well my daughter thought Poppi suited him better! She is 8 and still calls him her Poppi, which he adores ;)

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my dad is dad or daddy or pops to me. My step-dad is david to me.

My mom and step-dad are nana & papaw. My dad and step-mom are grandpa and grandma Fun. My husband's dad isn't really in the picture but we call him Grandpa Jack. and my husband's mom passed away before my kids were born but we refer to her as grandma mike (her name was Michaeleen).

When my husband's grandmother was still alive she was grandma, and my grandmother was grams.

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I've always called my dad Pop; my girls call him Deda (Russian for grandpa). Sometimes my oldest will call him 'your Pop' when talking to me :o)

My FIL is Pa to his kids; Grandpa to my girls and Deda to my nephew (don't know WHY my SIL insisted on this, but whatever).

My husband is Daddy to our girls - mostly because we wanted to differenciate between my dad, his dad and him.

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My step Dad is Daddy. My biological father is Dad. My kids call my Daddy "Grandpop". My son randomly started calling him this one day. It's funny, because he always called his dad "Pop", so I think he loves it. My Dad is Grandpa.

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I call him 'dad' and our son calls him 'papa'. I've never called him 'daddy' , its always been dad.

'Crappa' sounds hilarious.:)

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My dad is my "dad"
My kids call him "buelo" (also Spanish for Abuelo...for some reason my first didn't want to say the "a". Funny enough they call my mom "abue"...just cut off the END of the word)
My boys call my husband "papa".

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Since I have kids sometimes I call my dad grandpa but most of the time I still call him dad. My kids call him grandpa.

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My dad is Dad or Daddy, my kids call him Grampa. My husbands stepfather is Grampa Billy, my stepfather chose to be called Zappa. I am privileged to still have my maternal grandfather and I call him Papa (my grandmother is called Nanny). My husband's grandparents are Ma Mere and Pa Pere. I love creative names for grandparents depending on how the children pronounce the names, I think thats great, so cute!

I call my dad "dad". My boys call him Bop. When my oldest was little he could not say grandpa, so he say bapa. So, my parents became bapa and bama, which was later shortened to bop and bom. Oddly enough, his other grandpa became bumpa, so I guess that was his progression in pronouncing grandpa. Now that my boys are 16 and 17, they feel a little funny calling them that, so they are starting to call them grandma and grandpa. I miss hearing bop & bom :(

I call my father, Dad. Lol and my two year old daughter calls him, Pop Pop or Papa.

My Dad was Daddy or Dad to me, Granddaddy to the kids. He was willing to wait until they could say all that! My husband's dad was called by his first name, Ray, by his older kids and Pawpaw by the grandkids. My step grandfather was called Pappy by the family, but I (first grandchild) couldn't pronounce that and said Poppaday. All of our town called him Poppaday. My other grandfather was Gampo.
We're grandparents now and are Grandmere and Grandpere (we lived in France). My ex is Daddio and his wife is Grania (both Irish versions). It was fun to choose!

In our early years, we lived in an extended family home withour grandparents and my mother and dad called my grandparents "mother" and "daddy" and the grandparents called them by their first names, so we did and everbody was cool with that. Then when we got to be adolescents we noticed that other people didn't refer to their moms and dads that way and while we changed what we called my mom - it was still "Billie" for my dad. The change came with the birth of my children and then it was Papa (pronounced "paw-paw") Billie and that is how he is referred to by our entire family now including the next generation which are his great-grandchildren.

I call my father, daddy. My son calls him Papaw.

My son calls his father Papa, and my husbands father, Abuelito

I call my father Daddy, my girls call him Paw Paw and everyone else calls him Pops. Because his a dad to everyone! : )) The best one is my youngest calls my grandpa "Great Big Paw Paw"!! We always referred to him as great paw paw and she just stuck the big in there when she started talking! 8 years later he's still Great Big Paw Paw! LOL!

I am 30 years old and still call my dad Daddy. The grandkids call him Pop.

My father will always be Daddy to me. To my children and granddaughter he was Pha-Pha, named by my son, the first grandchild. (At first it sounded like Popeye, and he was having a fit about that name, but by the 3rd visit, it settled into Pha-Pha.) My father in law, from day one, was always Pa and that is how he introduced himself to my son when he was born. I will never forget the first time he saw his first born grandchild/grandson, he said, "Come to Pa." They are both now deceased.
My husband was always Daddy, but when the kids became adults (that title is questionable), it became Dad.
My granddaughter calls him Poppee; for awhile she did call him Granddaddy but decided that was a mouthful. On occasions she does call him Papa.
A neighbor is Pops, a close family friend is Papa Berry; but my all time favorite, that I found out about AFTER my husband was already known as Poppee by our one grandchild, is G-Daddy. A friend of my daughter had a dad that felt he was TOO YOUNG to be a Grampa or Granddaddy, so he shortened it to G-Daddy.