do not like being called first name by my friends kids

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well....

It's 2012, not 1953. Yabu

Would you prefer Mrs tight-arse or some such?

yabu

what annabella said :) I much prefer my first name to the formal Mrs. version.

My own son calls me by my name What do you want them to call you?!

Do they have to call you Mrs X till they're 18. Yabu. Respect is about more than a title/name.

its better than "DC's mam" (which is fine by me too)

this might be better than the 'eating in the supermarket aisle' one

tell us more, OP?

YABU

But I do admit to it grating on me and making me feel a bit awkward when my now 20yr old DS's friends called me by my name when they were little.

Having said that, if any of them called me "Mrs Liberty" Straight away I'd tell them to call me Worra

It's probably because when I was growing up, we didn't use first names...or if we did they were preceded by the word 'Auntie' or 'Uncle'.

Oh dear.

YANBU. IT's a matter of respect. My neighbour wanted to be called Mary but I had brought my daughter up to respect elders and she couldn't call her Mary so she called her Mrs Mary.

Personally, I would prefer to be called Mrs Drummond by anyone with whom I was not familiar especially companies, shops, unsolicited e-mails etc.

It's better than being called 'next door's Mum', which is what I get almost every day.

YABU.

YABU. You're not their teacher.

This is the worst kind of hyacinth bouquet rubbishness. I don't like being aunty smoulder either especially when I am a random playdate and have only met the children once before.

Bulldog,How is it respectful to have your dd ignore your neighbour's wishes,and call her by another name?

i insist my DCs friends call me 'madam'

you know, because i'm a jumped up prick stickler for respect

I would always rather be called BabyDubs rather than Mrs Everywhere

Even worse than full title though is Auntie/Uncle! I have a bit of a thing about that though, I dont even like it for REAL Aunties and Uncles, let alone friends, neighbours, the woman behind the til in the corner shop rah rah rah! Bleugh!

Just BabyDubs please, or your heiness will do

My Mum had this rule so we called everyone Auntie and Uncle.
Even next door neighbours.
Other kids in the street laughted at us.
It was also very awkward in my teens when I felt stupid calling random people Aunt and Uncle.
Several of them asked me to drop it now as I was almost an adult and that took a while to get used to. Felt wrong just calling them by their names.

So I decided that we would not go down the same path with DD.

We then did have someone I'd never met before introduce herself as 'Auntie X' to dd recently, as she said it was rude for a child to just call her X. I felt wrong about it - to me, Auntie is a label either to denote a (blood, or adoptive) relationship, or a special bond that someone has. It's not a label for anyone off the street. I was a bit p**d off about it but as we are unlikely to see them again I didn't give it too much head space.

I haven't been Auntie or Uncle to any friend's kids either, despite having an extremely close bond with one particular family. They don't respect me any less, or mess me around any more, and I don't love them any less for them calling me by my name.

YABU.

I like it.
It's my name, after all.
I don't like being called Mrs ***.....my first name is my own.
Don't see the big deal tbh...

what would you like them to call you op?

yabu.

I'm finding it strange that my name has changed, for ages I've been DS1's mum and now I'm starting to get called DS2's mum, by people I've met while DS1 is at preschool. An awful lot of people I meet at playgroup probably don't even know my surname, let alone call me Mrs Germnastics!