re: #292 mmmirele

I didn’t know my mother’s legal first name (Mary) until I was 10. I knew the name everyone called her by (Pauline). As for my father, he had initials for his name - J. B. In any case, only in very avant garde families did children call parents by their first names. I’m middle-aged and Mom is still Mom.

My cousin was telling me a story about our grandfather and how he would hear our grandmother call him by his first name and my cousin called my grandfather by his first name. He got a good laugh of it. I know some people who call their parents by their first names when they’re older. That just seems weird to me. I had friends who referred to my parents by their first names too and that too seemed odd when I was a kid. It’s different now that we’re older though.