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re: Kids Calling Parents Sir and Ma'am
Posted on 6/25/18 at 9:54 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Posted on 6/25/18 at 9:54 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Inside the family, they do not call me sir or wife ma’am.
Now, as far as anyone else outside the family, it’s absolitely sir and maam.
Now, as far as anyone else outside the family, it’s absolitely sir and maam.
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Posted on 6/25/18 at 9:55 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Ma’am and Sir are strictly enforced here at home. My sons are 9 and 12 and often get told how good their manners are. It’s an hourly reminder from us....
Posted on 6/25/18 at 10:26 pm to DavidTheGnome
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I don't want my kids calling me sir. I never said sir or ma'am to my parents. That's for non-family.
Not my place to say what y'all did was wrong, but the theory that using sir/ma'am is for non-family is preposterous. It's a sign of respect.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 10:29 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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What does the OT think? IMO kids who don't say Sir or ma'am are from trashy families.
This is one of the many ways trash self-identifies itself and i am grateful for each and every one of them.
It is almost as certian a tip off as a kid with any variation of aylon or aden in their name.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 10:34 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
I wouldn't personally want my kids to call me "sir" or my wife "ma'am." I would absolutely teach them to refer to other adults with those terms. Showing respect to others is never weird.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 10:37 pm to O
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If I didn't say yes sir or yes ma'am I'd get my arse beat.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 10:41 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
We were raised to say yes sir and yes ma'am to other adults but I don't recall ever saying it to my parents tbh. That seems a bit rigid but then again I was a well behaved kid and not a little shite so I can see rigidity being more necessary in certain circumstances. 
Posted on 6/25/18 at 10:44 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
I don't remember calling my parents sir or mam and I doubt I did. In fact, I don't like it at all.
I just call them mom and dad.
I will go as far to make sure my kids don't call me that. We're not strangers and this isn't a professional environment.
I just call them mom and dad.
I will go as far to make sure my kids don't call me that. We're not strangers and this isn't a professional environment.
This post was edited on 6/25/18 at 10:46 pm
Posted on 6/25/18 at 10:46 pm to Corkfather
Guaranteed way more Southern children say Mam and Sir than 1%. I said it and at least 80% of the people younger than me address the that way. And I’m 56. I wouldn’t have even thought of deviating from that as a young person.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 10:46 pm to TravisR
Posted on 6/25/18 at 10:56 pm to High C
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My children are grown and still answer me with yes/no sir.
You're just telling us that you still infantilize them in their grown age.
Me and my brother are in our late twenties and early thirties and the idea of us calling our parents sir and mam is just weird as shite to us and he does not expect or want it from us either.
And we're productive taxpaying citizens.
In fact, I find that parents who insist on their kids calling them sir and man even when they're grown arse adults to be weird and creepy.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 10:57 pm to Jon Ham
We say Grace and we say Ma'am and if you ain't into that we don't give a damn.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 11:00 pm to TravisR
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My 16 year old son had a friend over and I corrected his friend when he answered my question with "yeah" instead of "yes sir".
You didn't correct him for his own sake, you corrected him to because it happened in front of your own son.
It's not just about rules to you.
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. Example, last night at the dinner table, I instructed my three boys to each put their paper napkin on. All three simultaneously replied, “yes sir”.
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TravisR
What a freak.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 11:03 pm to Sentrius
This board’s obsession with certain regional southern mannerisms as being the only proper form of decorum is weird to me.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 11:09 pm to CorporateTiger
Not an obsession, just a reflection on who we are, what we grew up with, and proper manners. Not meant to be a slam on those who didn’t come up in life as any of those.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 11:10 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
I still call any person more than 10-15 years older than me sir or ma'am.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 11:11 pm to beachreb61
If you grow up and raise your kids in any area where that’s typical thengo for it.
I just find it crazy that this board seems to believe their particular mannerisms are the definitive way to have manners. It is incredibly myopic.
I just find it crazy that this board seems to believe their particular mannerisms are the definitive way to have manners. It is incredibly myopic.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 11:12 pm to CorporateTiger
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This board’s obsession with certain regional southern mannerisms as being the only proper form of decorum is weird to me.
We even have one guy in this thread who dumped his girlfriend who's from up north when she thought it was disrespectful to address her father as sir.
Yeah sure, That's not cultish and obsessive at all.
Way to enforce stereotypes about the south.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 11:13 pm to Sentrius
By this thread’s standards most kids who grow up in the hamptons are trash.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 11:20 pm to Aubie Spr96
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My biggest pet peeve is kids calling their parents by their first names. Makes me wanna punch somebody.
I still call my parents mom and dad but I do call my aunts and uncles by their first name.
Nobody gives a frick. We're both grown arse adults here.
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