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With my friends, my daughter calls them by their name or nickname.
With some I’m not actually sure of their last name myself.
with strangers, just being nice, which she learned early really.
Also some of my friends would be really confused to be called ‘Ms Duffy’, and would likely not realise she was being spoken to, however calling her KC works lol.
Its about How we speak to others not the title / Honorific we use.
Generally, Mister or Miss [name], unless they know differently. I do, however, reserve the right to teach them to refer to certain specific people as "Overlord" or "Grand Master" [name]. Gotta keep people on thier toes.
We’re in taekwondo among other things. “Sir/ma’am.” “Thank you, sir/ma’am.” isn’t uncommon along with the more common titles. Give respect and more likely to get respect.
Where I live, for people who are not figures of authority, I usually struck with ‘uncle’ and ‘auntie’.
Sometimes, I go with Mrs., Mr, Sir and Ma’am.
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I just let my children refer to people as their actual name, if they want to use stuff like sir or ma'am it is because it's there decisions I won't force that shit on them. Like myself nobody hasn't technically forced me to use things like ladies and gentlemen I chose to use those titles.
I come from a culture where we mener address. elders by their name. Even between siblings, there are words to prefix or suffix with the name. We taught them to always ad Mr / Ms / Mrs with names. If they are from our own culture or friends, we always use Uncle or Aunty or equivalent words in our own language.
Same way i was taught.
Show them respect, but i don't think elders should get a sir, or ma'am for being old, but they get respect until they become disrespectful
u I am raising them bilingual... and in Spanish or the Hispanic world, grammar does work to address the elderly in a different way and naturally, out of respect... some sort of politeness by default
They can call them whatever the person they are talking to wants them to. Which is most likely by their name.
Sir or mam first thing and it they’re a family friend or something and the friend tells them to call them by their first name then they can call them miss Jenny or mr. Bill. I still address my elders this way
Definitely , you are doing something right. We have to teach them how to show respect their elders. But not only how they call them but also how they must behave them.
As long as they try to stay respectful and say please and thank you, i won't force them to use suffixes/prefixes. I hardly use em myself
Give respect to your elders, at least in front of them and you will get the inheritance.
Even children need to be bribed to behave nicely.
depends. close friends will be their own name. otherwise it would be mr/mrs/miss/ms
u Mr./Ms./Mrs./Dr. Whichever applies. No honorifics for anything else.
in my native language, we have different ways to formally and politely adress a person. but i'd do the thing that's equivalent to the mr./ms. + last name thing.
I'm with you on that, same way. It surprises me how surprised the elders are once your kid calls them Mr or Ms, is it that rare nowadays?
My kids all use Mr. Mrs. and Ms.
On occasion Sir or Ma'am.
Whatever feels good to them.
If they wanna call me Active Big man or funny Big man then they can go ahead and do that.
By name? That's how you adress people here. Titles and formalities are outdated and haven't been in use in my country for decades.
u With great respect and call them by their last name saying hello good sir how are you today Mr. Sullivan
We taught our two daughters to be polite, and use an appropriate title for those they meet.
Mr Ms etc until the person allows them to call them by their first name.
I would suggest that children address their elders with sentences ending in " Yes Mamm " and " No Sir "
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