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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 09:42 PM Original message |
Would you be bothered if your child decided to call you by your first name? |
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SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
1. My daughter never asked to do that, but if she had, it wouldn't bother |
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LibraLiz1973 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
2. Not so much disrespectful as not appropriate IMHO |
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Beausoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
3. I LOVE it when they do. I love to hear my name from them. |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
4. don't think I would be bothered, but it would sure feel weird. |
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Ptah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
5. About two years ago, my then twenty-two year old son started addressing me by my first name. |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
6. Didn't have a kid, because it became very clear to me around 1987 that the worst thing |
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Ptah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 10:16 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. . |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 10:20 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Well, some day we'll have that nice strong drink and laugh. |
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asthmaticeog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 10:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Add this post to the pigpile of reasons that I love you dearly, sir. |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:18 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. So, after the non-population... |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 07:02 AM Response to Reply #6 |
22. you are so funny. its why i adore you. |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:25 AM Response to Reply #6 |
25. Ha! |
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midlife_mo_Jo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
10. IMO, you have a right to be addressed by the "name" you choose |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
11. My parents insisted on it all along! |
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Inchworm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
12. It's you, the addressed, that matters |
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qnr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
13. Yeah, once I was over the shock of discovering that I had a child :) |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
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Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
15. Yes, but |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:21 AM Response to Original message |
17. Nah |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
18. My boys do... |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:29 AM Response to Original message |
19. How old is he? |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 01:51 AM Response to Original message |
20. no... |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 02:09 AM Response to Original message |
21. Seems to me it's your choice... |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 07:03 AM Response to Original message |
23. of my friends, the one who does call her parents by first name, turned out much more mature and put |
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BarenakedLady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 07:55 AM Response to Original message |
24. Not my thing |
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Roon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
26. Does anyone remember that Brady Bunch episode |
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NC_Nurse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
27. None of mine have ever done that. |
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KatyMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
28. My sister's son calls |
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Connonym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
29. I would be an improvement over the current way she addresses me |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 11:05 AM Response to Reply #29 |
36. that's very cute- Earth female... |
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One_Life_To_Give (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
30. Call me old fashioned but |
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MissMillie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 09:27 AM Response to Original message |
31. I think I've earned my "mom" title |
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HERVEPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
32. My kids are 28 and 30 |
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datasuspect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
33. kids calling their parents by their first names is just peachy keen |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
34. I would, but it would bother me if my kid called me "Mom" too. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
35. Hell yes! |
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Morrisons Ghost (324 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
37. My 14 year old |
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