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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I think it's funny that, evidently, if a child disregards an adult's wishes to be called Firstname, and insists on calling the adult Mr. Lastname, then this is somehow an example of the child showing respect for the adult and adult authority.[/quote]

No they show respect for adults but respect for MY authority. Otherwise you set your kids up to be victims of predators who target them as being easily manipulated and thinking they have to follow and listen to what every single adult says. [/quote]

Your kid: Hi, Ms. Jones.
Adult: Please call me Martha.
Your kid: No, Mrs. Jones, I'm not allowed to. If I call you what you want to be called, that makes me more of a target for predators.[/quote]

Yes that's exactly how it plays out. I don't engage with reductive, base posters like you who play dumb. [/quote]

I really don't know how else it would play out, [b]if an adult specifically asks your child to call the adult by their first name[/b], and you have told your child that your child must call the adult by their last name no matter what the adult says.[/quote]

Once again, an adult making everything about himself or herself. Get over it. [/quote]

So you'll be fine with it if, for example, you ask me to call you Jane, but I call you Elizabeth? Because otherwise you'd be making it all about yourself.

The following thoughts come up often on DCUM, and I think that they reflect a particularly 21st-century, upper-middle-class American philosophy of parenting:

1. Only I have authority over my child.
2. Other people should help me raise my child the way I think my child should be raised, by doing what I want them to.[/quote]

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