I think my one friend who lives out of state and I only see once in a while refers to me as Miss First Name which is fine too.
I think it will be funny if I am called Mrs. H someday, but Mrs Lastname is just too formal. People just don't do that as much in the Midwest as in the South or East Coast.
DS1's school friends all say Mrs. Lastname. I would be fine with first names, but I know some of their moms aren't, so I go with the social standard. I do have a couple close friends whose kids call me by my first name. And I have four best friends from college who we travel with as families once a year, and our kids all use Aunt and Uncle Firstname within the group. So a mix, I guess.
Took some getting used to. DS's friends were primarily kids from scouts or band where I was a parent volunteer ad the custom was to follow the Mrs. Lastname format. I used to encourage the boys to call me by my first name once they turned 18, but only one took me up on it.
My niece who lives with me calls me "Auntie". So do all of her friends. I hazard a guess that many of them don't know my first name.
Post by AllieHound on Oct 26, 2014 10:36:03 GMT -5
I'd like to be Miss FirstName or Mrs LastInitial. If his friends are the children of my close friends, I wouldn't have a problem with just my first name.
We're a ways away from this, but I'd prefer to be called Mrs. Lastname unless I'm close to the kids' moms. Then I am ok being Ms. Firstname or Aunt Firstname.
I am not cool with a kid calling me by just my first name. I am not their peer.
Either first name or Miss first name. A few close friends' kids do Auntie first name.
Mrs. Lastname makes me feel old! We know a few families with elementary age kids that have their kids do that and I feel ancient, every time. (Although at 9, I probably thought 31 was old, LOL.)
DS is too little and all of his friends right now are my friends kids but it is all just first name. I would feel wied being called mrs anything. We also only call all of our aunts and uncles by their first names only as well so I guess we are just really informal around here