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Well I equally believe it's not polite to hear kids addressing adults as peers. So I will raise mine my way and if you think it's rude, that's fine, because I think yours sound rude as well. [/quote]

It's not polite to [i]hear[/i] things? If Adult A wants my kid to call her by her first name, and my kid then does call her by her first name, and you hear it, then Adult A and my kid are being rude because you don't want to hear that?[/quote]

It's crass. If the other person just insists, whatever, but I was raised with manners and it's never going to sound okay to me to hear some child walk up and address their elder as Jim. [b]If Jim doesn't care and you don't care, have at it, but your kids sound like they were raised without respect or manners. [/b]Clearly you don't care about that though so I'm not sure why it bothers you someone would think that. [/quote]
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I agree, it doesn't sound right. People can like what they like, but the other PP cannot police people's impressions of her or her family. And some of those impressions will be negative.[/quote]

Nobody is talking about policing people's impressions. On the other hand, some people are saying that their manners are correct manners and manners different from theirs are incorrect manners.

I will teach my kids that it's polite (and considerate) to call people what the people ask my kids to call them. If you hear that and conclude that my kids were raised without respect or manners, there's not much I can do about it.[/quote]

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