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

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My DC (9) was talking to his MIL on the phone about his afternoon at his friend's house and said 'Then Brian took us to McDonalds!'. MIL asked who Brian was, when my DC told MIL it is his friend's dad she said it was very odd to call him by his first name, not Mr (last name).

My DCs have have always called their friend's parents by their first name or '(friends name) mum' if they don't know their name yet.

Using Mr & Mrs (last name) seems very american to me and I could only imagin my children using that if their friend's parent was also a teacher at their school.

Is this a generational difference or maybe location dependent?

What do your DCs call their friend's parents? YABU - They use Mr and Mrs (last name)
YANBU - They use their first name

On the estate I grew up on in the 1960s-70s it was always first names although this may have been unusual. Visiting primary school friends would call my mum Mrs X; I would guess they had been told by their parents they must do to be polite. But my mum disliked being called that; she once said that Mrs X never did anything worthwhile, though P. (first name) did. (But even she was disconcerted in the 1990s when her bank rang up and called her P. but took my point when I reminded her what she'd said.) At secondary school I had one friend who was exaggeratedly formal about this and at one outside body we both belonged to called all the adult organisers Mr/Mrs X, although I know it would have been fine to use first names; I did. After I went to university he happened to meet my mum socially and called her Mrs X. She replied 'I'm P.'. When addressing friends' parents I used first names if the friends were neighbours on the estate; if not I largely avoided using names at all. In my experience children nowadays do address friends' parents by their first names. I think this is a good thing. Some friends of my mum's became friends of mine too; I think it is good for children to feel that that is so; and I remained friends with many of these people so after my mum died.

Cannot imagine anyone introducing themselves as Mr or Mrs, even when I was young in the 80s and 90s we called friends parents by their first names.... I think the only people who me Mrs Doughnut are customer service operatives when I complain about something!

I’m 48 and we called friends parents by their first names. My Nanna called all her friends Mrs Jones, or Ada Morris, never Ada or Gwen. I thought it was odd, and always called them the same. But we never called our friend’s parents Mrs Hope etc. I often used to say to my friend’s kids ‘you can call me Jane’ if they called me Ben’s mum.

First time they came over they all automatically said mr and Mrs x. And in school it would be hello Mrs x. I loved it. But second visit asked them to use my name. Private school, north west England.