"beth thomas" <epthomas@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Ranger posted in another ng about manners and kids...got me to
> thinking....how much do you stress manners with your kids? Do you
> expectations have changed since you were a kid? What do you insist on
(or
> not) with your own?
> Beth
>
> One of the main things I see is a much more casual way of addressing
> parents...I still can't address my friends' parents (the ones I knew as
a
> kid, that is) by first name, they will always be Mr. or Mrs. Same with
> aunts and uncles. Now, my kids' friends call me Beth, or Miss Beth ,
and
> my niece and nephew don't use 'aunt'. I see my kids' friends being more
> open / casual with me, not in a rude way, but they will joke and cut up
> whereas when I was younger I never considered that with the 'rents.
>
> how about you?
Well, growing up for me...
In the neighbourhood... The neighbours that my parents were friends with
and
us kids were friends with were known as "Auntie and Uncle" - if they were
good friends of my parents. The neighbours that were older and didn't
have
kids our age were most likely Mr. and Mrs.
To this day, that still remains. The next door neighbour that is now
probably 80ish is still Mrs. Becker to me - and she keeps insisting we
call
her, now as adults, Doris. I just can't do it, although it's not that I
don't *want* to, really. My parents still call her Mrs. Becker. The
neighbours that are my parents' age that have the kids (now adults!) that
we
grew up with... Still the same... I still call old (then) close childhood
friends' parents Auntie ****rley and Uncle Fred, for one example. And the
same goes for them - they still refer to my parents as Auntie and Uncle
lol
I have no friends that my kids call Aunt or Uncle that aren't related -
other than 2. My 2 best friends, one dating back to elementary school
(who
is also DS's godmother) - she is Auntie Leanna, and one from jr. high -
she
is Auntie Leah. To my friend Leah's DS, I am Auntie as well (and the
other
friend has no children)
We also have a couple good friends - they are known by their first names
to
my kids, and we go by our first names for their kids. Quite frankly, I do
NOT want to be known as "Mrs-Something" to all the kids... That's just
maybe
a personal thing for me. It actually kind of bothers me to be called a
Mrs,
Ms or Miss at DS's school lol
....if that rambling makes ANY sense at all...
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