NIdaho Blogs: The Name Game

Pecky Cox of As The Lake Churns blog is shown with actor-commenter Ben Stein at her recent 50th birthday party at Hill’s Resort at Priest Lake.

Top Blog Post: We’ve always danced around the issue of how our children should address our adult friends. Of course I’d prefer the kids use a formal title, like “Mrs. Rowling,” but at some point when we weren’t paying attention our friends’ kids started calling us by our first names. So I confused my kids by saying they should call certain adults by their first name because their kids do that to us. And, well, it’s all a big mess now, and the issue has been ignored rather than fixed. I could just insist on my kids always being polite and formal with everyone over the age of 18, but that might put them far out of step with society/ Idaho Dad , A Family Runs Through It. More here.

• School’s back already? /A Butterfly Moment
• Labor Day weekend /Bay Views
• Nicole’s ‘I lovingly hate you’ chicken & sauce /Blush Response
• SR staffers take buyout /Community Comment
• Morality can’t be legislated /Dogwalk Musings
• How do you end up with your pets? /From A Simple Mind
• God’s handiwork in Cedar Grove /Gathering Around the Table
• This bites! /Nuts & Nonsense
• Tuesday Tractordeedum /Slight Detour
• Bob’s BBQ Burgers & beer /Stebbijo’s Place
• Loose pebbles /Tumblewords

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Question: How do/did your children address grownups?