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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the people who think that a parent who prefers to be addressed by her first name ought to defer to a parent who wants her children to address other parents by Mr/Mrs X...do you think that a parent who prefers to be addressed as Mrs. X ought to defer to the parent who wants her children to address other adults by their first name?

In other words, there seem to be a lot of people who believe that if Sally Smith wants to be addressed as Sally but Donna Dunmore wants her kids to address Sally as Mrs. Smith then Sally should accept this.  If Donna wants Sally's kids to address her as Mrs. Dunmore but Sally's thinks her kids should just call her Donna, are you as accepting it ought to be Sally's right to decide how her children address other adults?

Reading this thread, I'm surprised at how many people use Ms. Firstname - how is it i've never encountered it before.  Not growing up or at my kids' schools, either...including pre-school or daycare.  I didn't even know it was a thing.  Calling an adult Miss Donna or Miss Sally makes me envision people prancing around a plantation or something. [/quote]

Learn how to write concise articulate sentences[/quote]

I understood the post perfectly; work on improving your reading comprehension.

And the point is a valid one—if parents are the final arbiter of how their child addresses other adults, then parents who insist on their kids calling other parents Mrs. Smith will have to tolerate being called Donna by parents who have taught their children to use first names. Otherwise they are circumventing the other parents’ teachings, and would be hypocritical.[/quote]

Like PP I had a hard time following that post.  But no, I wouldn’t push back on the child if he insisted on calling me by my first name.  That has never happened though.[/quote]

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