In Reply to: Good on you posted by LostinTranslation on Sunday, 15. March 2009 at 06:46 Bali Time:
It's the infantilisation aspect of it that worries me. As though they can't be friend on equal terms.
Then again, some people call their mothers-in-law "Mum", and they aren't related by blood.
Perhaps we're reading too much into it? It might just be a way of acknowledging a caring and close relationship between people of different generations?