Do your kids call your friends Aunt and Uncle?

[Deleted]

Yes.

[thedutchgirl]

My very closest friends' kids call me Auntie Dutch. I love it. Other friends have their kids call me Ms. Dutch, which I find cute as well. I do think some sort of honorific is appropriate. I didn't move to first names for my parents' friends or my friends' parents until I was in college.

[awick14]

DH and I are "auntie" & "uncle" to a few of our friends kids. And they will probably be to our kids as well. Growing up I called my parents friends auntie and uncle as well.

In my family the title auntie and uncle have always been the way we show respect to our elders. (If that makes any sense)

[awick14]

Feb 25, 2013 22:12:26 GMT -5 thebamker said:

I have many "aunts and uncles" that are not related to me. My mom thought it disrespectful to call adults by their first name but mr. & mrs. was too formal.

We do this with our kids too.

I didn't read all the posts before I replied but this is what I was trying to say.

[EmilieMadison]

They dont call them auntie and uncle, but my kids do think of some of our friends as such, and sometimes refer to them as being like an aunt or uncle. They also consider some friends to be like cousins.

[TemperanceBrennan]

Growing up we called a couple of family friends "aunt" or "uncle". Our friends' little boy will call us "auntie" and "uncle" and if we have kids, they will call our friends "auntie" and "uncle". I know my niece calls some of her parents' friends "aunt" and "uncle". I don't know if it's been in front of me or not, but it doesn't bother me either way. It's just more people who love my niece. Nothing wrong with that. I don't think it is a big deal or bad if it happens.

[isabel]

We don't have kids, but DH refers to his best friend as "Uncle Mitch" when he's talking about him meeting our kids one day. I assume we'll refer to our very close friends as Aunt/Uncle. This doesn't seem weird to me and DH is very close to his family, so if anything, it would be weird for him. It doesn't seem to be an issue.

[Deleted]

My best friend since birth gets called auntie, we grew up so close I was always the honorary sister of her and her real sisters. No one else. My brother calls his friend's kid his "nephew" and OT actually does bother me. I guess I'm a hypocrite.