Do your DC call their friend's parents Mr and Mrs (last name)?

@CarolinaInTheMorning I know a family in Virginia with 3 small boys who call me ma'am, and I just love it!

I don't have kids but when I was a child (born 1976) I called my friends' parents either 'Auntie/Uncle Firstname' if the parents were also friends with mine and just 'Firstname' if they weren't friends with my mine. I never called anyone's mum and dad 'Mr/Mrs Surname'.

When I was little we lived in a cul-de-sac where everyone knew each other and the kids called all the adult neighbours by their first names, with the sole exception of two elderly widows who were always known as (eg) Mrs Smith and Mrs Jones. Weirdly, the elderly and elderly women with living husbands were known their first names. So we had Mrs Smith and Mrs Jones (widows) but also Bill (a widower) and Reg & Winnie and George & Vi (elderly couples).

I've never ever heard any child refer to their friends parents by their surname. It sounds like how people speak in American films and TV shows.
In primary school we also called the teachers by their first names. And some kids called their parents by their name as well, rather than mum/dad.
I guess she is just rather old fashioned. In my family/experience it would be considered way too formal.

I live in the Southern US; it's definitely Mr./Ms. last name or more commonly "Ms. Jane" and "Mr. Brian." As children become young adults, they might be asked to use just the first name, but often still use the title.

I used to call friends' parents Mr and Mrs. I still do, to this day.
We never called people we were unrelated to " Aunt " or " Uncle". In fact, we called actual aunts and uncles by their first names.
My Dad called his mother and father by their first names. This suggests that they had a very relaxed and liberal relationship but this is not true at all. His brother called his mother by a completely different first name, I don't know why.

That's my tack for the ILs, definitely not M&D, they did suggest that NOooo, Mr & Mrs too formal, first name too casual.

I'm actually surprised there haven't been more votes for 'awkwardly avoiding using any name at all'.

Mine call their friends' parents by their first names. Titles like Mr and Mrs aren't used in Finland at all outside of children's books (Mr Bunny etc.) So the only other option is calling them so-and-so's mum/dad which i expect they do with parents they don't know well. The friends of my youngest child usually call me DS's mum, I expect that'll change to first name in a few years

Teachers are called by first names too.

I've got Dave's Mum in my phone.
So when I'm driving and ask it to call Mum it pulls up about 6 Mums

Yes ours did. They were never instructed, just chose to.

No they weren’t brought up in the 50’s

I see American children on tv use Mr/Mrs but my kids use X’s mum/dad as do their friends.

They went through a period where they were fascinated by the first names of adults like teachers so would call me by my first name but went back to X’s mum

Dépends. We moved to France when dd was 9. The UK ones were first names, the French ones M and Mme X.

Because when I was a child, every single child called every single adult Mr/Mrs (or aunty and uncle) and now every single child I know calls adults by first names?

First names. I always used to introduce myself to DCs' friends with my first name.

Same here. It always reminds me of the Kevin & Perry sketches and they are from the 90s.

I'm early 20s and always called Mr/ Mrs the first time but they always then said call me 'first name'. I think it's polite & it's like they do at school. My parents always said to do it for anyone more than 10 years older than you or in a professional environment. So I'd still call an elderly person Mr/Mrs first time even though I'm an adult now.
I actually don't like it when the bank/ hospital/ whoever call me and say "Hey first name". Feels a bit weird & over familiar but I appreciate that's the way I was brought up & not sometimes their intention

No that's very old fashioned. It's Brian and Steve now !)

I'm a 60s/70s child and it was always Mr & Mrs or Suzie's mum. My parents always called them Mr & Mrs in front of us too! Other people used Auntie Suzie & Uncle Suzie despite not being related. Because of the awkwardness of still calling my (real) Aunts & Uncles Auntie this & Uncle that when I was a grown woman, in the 90s I made sure all my nieces & nephews used my first name right from the start!

Depends on how well we know the parents - its either Auntie/ Uncle First name or just first name or X's mum/dad.

My DS is an adult now and he has always called everyone other than me and his dad and his grandparents by their first names.

I hated as a kid I was forced to call all of my parents close friends aunty and uncle despite being no relation and I always said I’d let my DS call people by whatever he chose.

Why is EVERYTHING put down to 'generational differences'?

Why can't it just be that different families do things differently?

It's not American, it's generational differences. I was raised to call people Mr/Mrs Lastname (I'm 'only' 39) but would refer to them as X's parents if talking about them to my parents or my friends. I didn't call them all Mr/Mrs Lastname though, I remember doing it with my best friends mum and she laughed and told me to call her by her first name.

Haha we actually do use Mr and Mrs for dog walkers. Mr Charlie and Bella, Mrs Coco...

Dc’s close friends always called each others parents by first names.

But otherwise ‘JacksMum’ was common. Now my kids are young adults I can still be surprised in Sainsbury’s by some six-footer beaming ‘hello JacksMum’ or introduced as ‘this is JillsMum’ as if it is my name.

It was a small school that encouraged parents to be involved and all the kids knew who was whose parent.

Teachers and school staff were all first names too.

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