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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids should not be addressing any adults by first name only. [/quote]

In your opinion. I find Mrs. So and So to be incredibly fusty, and Miss So and So to be southern and weird. I prefer to be called by my first name. How is using my name disrespectful? [/quote]

I agree so much with both of these. I hate that my 3 year old calls a grown up “Lauren”. But, she doesn’t want Mrs Last Smith, and Miss Lauren is annoying and a mouthful.[/quote]

It's really not once you get used to it. I grew up outside Philadelphia and never heard Ms. Firstname until I was a young adult and someone addressed me that way, and it was so weird to me! But then I moved down here and heard it a lot. And then when I had kids I could not fathom having the address adults by their first names, and no one seems to use last names. So everyone is Mr./Ms. Firstname and it's actually very easy. My newly 2 year old can say Ms. Lauren.

The hardest part is making my 5 year old understand, from a philosophical perspective, why adults are Ms./Mr.![/quote]

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