Anonymous
01/22/2022 23:47
Subject: How does your teen’s BF/GF address you?
Anonymous wrote:avoids the name, haha
Just realized I have never heard the boyfriend say any name for me. Weird since he is at my house almost every day
Anonymous
01/22/2022 08:27
Subject: How does your teen’s BF/GF address you?
First name. That's how I introduce myself to all my kids friends.
Anonymous
01/22/2022 07:55
Subject: How does your teen’s BF/GF address you?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ms. First name, just like all of their friends do.
+1 Except it's Miss First Name.
What is the difference? I pronounce Ms. and Miss the same way. Unless the kid is sending you written invitations what is the difference???
Anonymous
01/22/2022 07:53
Subject: How does your teen’s BF/GF address you?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Auntie Larla?
Larla Auntie?
Auntie??
What's with the auntie crap? These are kids dating your kid. Not kids who are related to you.
Wow. Your ignorant prejudice is showing. Calling an adult woman by Auntie (usually combined with their name) is a term of respectful address in many cultures, including in India, Pakistan and other countries in South Asia, Singapore, Taiwan, many parts of Africa, China, and even Caribbean and African American culture.
Anonymous
01/22/2022 00:00
Subject: How does your teen’s BF/GF address you?
I introduce myself to all my kids’ friends the same-“nice to meet you, I’m Jenny Smith.” They all call me Mrs. Smith, I expect my kids to use Mr/Mrs, it seems to be the default in our circles.
Anonymous
01/21/2022 18:48
Subject: Re:How does your teen’s BF/GF address you?
Mrs. last name.
Anonymous
01/21/2022 12:08
Subject: How does your teen’s BF/GF address you?
I'm dreading this lol. My parents enforced the Mr/Ms Lastname for adults but that's a losing battle these days. First name just seems way too familiar. The English language does not have a good solution for this, we need to borrow one from one of the many other languages that do.
Anonymous
01/21/2022 12:05
Subject: How does your teen’s BF/GF address you?
Anonymous wrote:Auntie Larla?
Larla Auntie?
Auntie??
What's with the auntie crap? These are kids dating your kid. Not kids who are related to you.
Anonymous
01/21/2022 11:20
Subject: How does your teen’s BF/GF address you?
Anonymous wrote:Ms. First name, just like all of their friends do.
+1 Except it's Miss First Name.
Anonymous
01/21/2022 10:27
Subject: How does your teen’s BF/GF address you?
By my first name.
Anonymous
01/21/2022 10:15
Subject: How does your teen’s BF/GF address you?
avoids the name, haha
Anonymous
01/21/2022 10:15
Subject: How does your teen’s BF/GF address you?
The little kids started calling us Mr. Larlo and Ms. Larla. That kind of stuck and it’s what they call us as teens.
Anonymous
01/21/2022 10:09
Subject: Re:How does your teen’s BF/GF address you?
Hi, hello.
Anonymous
01/21/2022 09:47
Subject: How does your teen’s BF/GF address you?
Auntie Larla?
Larla Auntie?
Auntie??
Larla Auntie?
Auntie??
Anonymous
01/21/2022 09:45
Subject: How does your teen’s BF/GF address you?
What do you want to be called? That’s what you should be called.
Where I grew up, it was normal to call friends’ parents and my parents’ friends by their first names. So that’s my norm, and I have never been Mrs. X; also, my kids’ last name is different from mine, so going by first name is much easier.
But if I wanted to be Mrs. X, that’s how I’d introduce myself. And as a PP noted, most kids just avoid using a name anyway, so it really doesn’t matter in practice.
Where I grew up, it was normal to call friends’ parents and my parents’ friends by their first names. So that’s my norm, and I have never been Mrs. X; also, my kids’ last name is different from mine, so going by first name is much easier.
But if I wanted to be Mrs. X, that’s how I’d introduce myself. And as a PP noted, most kids just avoid using a name anyway, so it really doesn’t matter in practice.