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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are preschoolers so we haven't had to deal with this yet, but now you've got me thinking.

I think I'd probably ask them, "what should Larlo call you?" and I'd encourage my kids to ask the same question. What does everyone think about that?

Personally, I'd be happy if other kids called me my first name. I don't want them to call me Mrs. Larlos-last-name because I never use that - I didn't change my name when I got married and I have a PhD anyway (which our kids' friends would probably never know) so if we're really being formal then my title is Dr, which I find pretentious. And Mr. Larlos-last-name won't work for my husband since the kids have my last name and not his.

I'd be okay with my kids calling them Mr or Mrs whatever, if that's what they asked to be called, but honestly I probably wouldn't be encouraging those friendships because I'd think they're a bunch of snobs. Kids calling them by their first name when they haven't been invited to do so is rude though, I agree. [/quote]

And btw for the "social class", "unclutured" (sic) PP above, we've traveled extensively, lived on multiple continents, my kids have several citizenships, and we both have graduate degrees from good schools in challenging fields.[/quote]

That's not the social class she's talking about. As someone who grew up in Middleburg where the highest social class meant being invited to dinner at Mrs. Mellon' s Oak Spring "home" you would not call her, not any of her guests Mrs Rachel. [/quote]

This is hilarious. As someone who grew up extremely “high class” and called most adults by their first names (after they told me to), I knew Mrs. Mellon and knew her as Bunny. Calling someone by their honorific and last name isn’t classy, it’s what you do with people you don’t know very well. Mrs/Ms Firstname is either Southern or preschool teacher and not something my kids or I have ever said, with the exception of ballet and gymnastics teachers who seem to call themselves by that title. [/quote]

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