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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
What will you have your kids' friends call you?
I was with a friend last night who wants her kids' friends to call her Mrs. H___. I'm fine with Kim. I think it's regional, no? I grew up in SoCal where we're all so casual and informal so I don't find it rude to address an adult by their first name, unless they request otherwise.
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Re: What will you have your kids' friends call you?
For close friends' kids (or kids' friends) who see me often and know me well, first name will be fine. For kids who don't know me so well, I think Mrs. Last Name is appropriate.
As long as they're respectful, though, I'll just go with whatever their own parents tell them to call me. ?
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I couldn't care less, but I always called my friends' mothers Mrs. So and So. Or more like Miss So and So b/c I didn't know the difference back then.
Maybe in the south this is the way its done? I don't know - it always seemed appropriate to put a Mrs. in front of the first name - at least that's how we all did it.
My Etsy Store PIGGY'S PLACE
Mrs. Falce.
But I also get really bugged when adults assume it's okay to call me Lori. Um, sorry Mr. Electric Company Customer Service Guy, but we aren't buddies. You really don't get to do that.
Also...what about nieces/nephews? I call all my aunts/uncles Aunt____ and Uncle _____, and I expect (and get) the same. I think it's disrespectful when kids call their aunts/uncles just by their first name.
I'm cool with my first name. However I would like DD to call her DCP Ms. Liz. A few of our good friends kids will end up calling us aunt and uncle...
Same here. I still call my friends parents "Mrs.First name". I would just assume my kids' friends would do the same.
I would expect that the first time they meet me/address me they refer to me as Mrs. M____. but I would tell them immediately to call me Michelle. My parent were always like that and I'm just not a formal person.
I will always teach my kids that they refer to any adult as Mr./Mrs./Ms. last name until told otherwise.
My inlaws were Mr. and Mrs. until we were engaged and while I respected it, it's so foreign to me
I agree with this too, especially the aunt/uncle part. My DH's oldest brother has his kids just call us by first name and it irritates the piss out of me.
Well, yeah, but doesn't everybody call you that?
i agree with you. if they want to make their kids call me something, fine. but i'm cool with jennifer.
my friends and i all seem to have fallen into the pattern of 'aunt jennifer' and i refer to them as aunt and uncle too. they're close friends. she doesn't call anyone anything yet. when she does, as far as strangers go, i think i'll teach her to call them mr/miss first name and then leave it in their court. except in the case of older people. i'd probably refer to them as mr/mrs last name. it reallly depends on the person, you know? if they're cool with first name only, then she can call them that. i don't really care.
This. It's what my mom made us do when we were kids. My friends NOW still call my parents Mr. and Mrs. C. If my last name is hard for kids to say, they can use Mrs. P.
lol...I still call my friends parents Mr./Mrs. too. I call my IL's Mr. and Mrs. as well.
A few of my closest friends have kids and they call me 'Aunt Cheryll' - and my daughter calls them 'Aunt (insert name)'. Ben will do the same.
I don't want to be called Mrs. (last name). It's too stuffy for me.
My ex's mother always wanted me to call her by her first name. I just couldn't. And it was doubly hard to do it because she was my sister's 6th grade teacher, so I was used to her being Mrs. XXXXX. I avoided calling her anything altogether.
Now I do the same with FIL. Calling him "Lifesucking Leech" just seems so rude. At least, to his face, anyway.
This and it annoys the crap out of me when my 12 year old niece addresses me as "Amy" I correct her every time.
I completely agree. I grew up w/ using Mr./Mrs./Ms last name or first letter of the last name, and so will DD. It is a respect thing and I do not like it when kids call adults by their first name.
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