Why are authors so obsessed with making kids call their fathers dadda?
Because honestly, that’s not how it works in India.
I’m not even talking about kids growing up. Even small children don’t normally call their fathers dadda. That’s just not a common thing here.
Ok I get it some toddlers might struggle calling like father, dad or something that's why dadda.
Why it's same in every other book? Like a copy paste.
In so many books, every child is written saying dadda like it’s the default word. It isn’t.
In real life, we say papa, baba, appa, abbu or other regional variations. That’s what actually reflects how people speak.
At this point, it just feels like copy-paste from popular paperback authors, one person used it, it became a trend, and now everyone keeps repeating it without thinking about whether it’s realistic.
It’s not cute atp rather inaccurate and overused.