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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some kids (7 years old) just call me "first name" and I have asked them and their parents to add a "Miss" in front of it - or call me "Mrs. Last name." I do not think these young children are my peers. Some of the kids have adopted a "Miss First name" approach, but not all.

I disagree that "Miss First Name" is strictly a Southern thing. I know plenty of people from all over who are raising their children saying "Miss/Mr. First Name."

Today, still, at 40-something years old, I call my parents friends "Mrs./Mr. Last name." It's what I'm comfortable with.

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[b]It is impolite to bestow honors upon yourself.[/b][/quote]

Does that mean at elementary school, where teachers are called Mr./Mrs. Last name, that the teacher is being requesting an honor be bestowed upon them? How many students in ES refer to their teacher as "Jane"?

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To make your example the same as the PP's example, Jane would need to instruct the students (and their parents) to refer to her as "Miss Last Name after they'd already been calling her Jane.

Personally, I think the PP sounds pretty uptight. Using your first name is not the be all and end all sign that these 7 year olds don't respect you and correcting them seems more like a way of putting them in their place. My child has often called her father by his first name, because that's what she hears me calling him. She refers to my friends by their first names for the same reason. She is 2.5 and met most of these people well before she had any idea of what "good manners" are.[/quote]

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