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Names and Titles Practice Page

Learn the actual preference and use it considerately.

Fifteen minutes for one reading or family decisionFree · Two-page fillable PDF

Companion to Teach Respectful Names When Adults Prefer Different Forms of Address.

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Hypothetical example: A child asks a visiting adult which form of address they prefer and practices it without a public etiquette test.

01Explain the custom before correcting the child

Identify the actual person, setting and naming instruction already given.

Person and setting

Naming instruction already given

Custom I should explain

02Give a simple way to ask

Confirm the preferred name or title through a respectful question.

Preferred name or title

Who confirmed the preference

Question to ask if uncertain

03Repair the name without staging humiliation

Prepare a brief correction and practice the adult’s equal responsibility.

Brief correction to use

Child’s chance to try again

Adult name mistake to repair

04Keep the wider conduct in view

Review the whole exchange rather than treating a title as the only evidence of respect.

Respectful request to practice

Conduct beyond the greeting

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