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  | Mum2ET   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Topic: at what age... Posted: 07 January 2009 at 8:12pm
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   did your toddler stop calling random men dadda? Ella thinks that every man or picture of a man is dadda. She also calls (much to my amusement) a picture of a monkey dadda (I swear I didn't put her up to that).  | 
 
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  | cuppatea   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   I dunno, at the moment Spencer calls everything dadda and seems to think that mumma means food.
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  | BuzzyBee   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   LOL umm well Lucas is going on 22 months and anything related to my Dad (his Poppa) is Dadda! Highly embarrassing when Dad & I are out somewhere and lucas keeps referring to him as his Dadda, god only knows what people are thinking   .
 Atm 'Dadda' is any foods my dad eats, anything yellow, cars, butter scotch lollies etc. Just anything he see's my Dad using, eating, touching, wearing. 
 Lol his latest word is 'kit kat'. Not cool when you're at the checkout of the supermarket with a toddler throwing a tanty and screaming 'kit kat' (and frantically pointing at the chocolate) ... 
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  | Rachael21   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   Um I can't remember maybe around 2ish? 
 Lol Steph my Dad is a school teacher and we usually do the zoos and stuff in the school holidays, a few times people have referred to him as Dad      so embarassing.
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  | pomikiwi   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   aw thats cute, hehe!
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  | Skyflame   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   Everything is Dadda here at the moment too, am looking forward to that ending and not having to be called Dadda any more.
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  | Nikki   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   Jakes does it too, and calls all older men Poppa (he has 4 Poppas (and my 2 grandads are grandad), no wonder the poor kid thinks all older men are poppa!!)
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  | Kellz   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   Isla has never called random men dadda,..but atm she calls most women 'lady',...any girls/teenages- 'girl' and any older ladies 'Nana'    | 
 
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  | lilfatty   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   Gah .. I will stay clear of her then .. I dont want her to call me Nanna! 
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  | HippyMama   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   No dadda issues here that I can recall, but DD still calls most old men Poppa, which is rather amusing most of the time    | 
 
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  | DJ   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 09 January 2009 at 11:24am | 
 
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    A calls women "of a certain age" Nana too - it is very cute, and no-one has been offended (yet).
 She once called a guy Daddy at the pool, and got really upset when she realised it wasn't, but doesn't tend to call random men Dadda.
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  | NeoshasMummy   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 I dunno, at the moment Spencer calls everything dadda and seems to think that mumma means food.
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 OMG Neosha thinks mumma means food too... no matter who has the food   | 
 
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      Mrs Te Kani ❤️ Neosha 26/5/2007
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  | Bubbaloo   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   James doesn't do the dad thing but like Isla calls any old ladies Nana.
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