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[quote=Anonymous]I would never advocate for a child to call an adult by their first name without a title or honorific. When nannying, I was Miss X, my grandparents, greats and great-great were all Grandma or Grandpa while talking to them, or Grandma/Grandpa Last name if not. My father is remarried, and my step-mother is Masi (mah see), short for mom-nickname, because even though I was an adult when they married, it's not respectful to call her by name, nor was I comfortable calling her mom or mother. I know I'm more formal with language than most people, my parents were Mommy and Daddy until I went to preschool, then they became Mother and Father because I thought it sounded better. But even so, there's no way that I would tell my child to call a grandparent Grandma First name or leave off Grandma altogether, even if he/she was a step.[/quote]
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