https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 08 May 2026 07:38:08 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1163590 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:57:14 +0000 regberadaisy 1163590@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We refer to our good friends (the husband is DH's BFF) as uncle and aunt. We are as close if not closer to them than her blood uncles so it's not weird to us at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1163574 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:54:20 +0000 banana 1163574@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All of our close friends are Uncle and Auntie. Everyone else gets a Ms or Mr. I see it as a sign of respect, but I think it's a cultural thing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1163497 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:26:54 +0000 keiki_mama 1163497@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm Chinese and we're always taught to address elders as Aunty and Uncle as a sign of respect. LO will address all our friends as Aunty and Uncle as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1163415 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:05:54 +0000 2PeasinaPod 1163415@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're teaching LO to call them Mr. FirstName or Mrs./Miss FirstName. I have 2 brothers who are both married and my DH also has a brother. Those are his aunts and uncles! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1163405 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:02:13 +0000 Smurfette 1163405@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ditto what @photojane: said. In the south it is Mrs First Name and Mr First name. I still call friend's parents Mrs First Name. And I meet them in my 30's. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1163358 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:44:22 +0000 Alivoo01 1163358@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Super close friends are Aunt/Uncle (name). Everyone else is Mr/Ms. (name). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1163283 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:28:46 +0000 MrsSCB 1163283@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Growing up my parents were pretty strict about us calling adults Mr. or Mrs. Lastname because they felt it was most respectful. I don't know if that's an old-fashioned attitude now though? I don't think my kids will call our friends aunt or uncle. I think I'll probably let then call our friends what the friends prefer (i.e. by their first name or mr. Lastname if they would rather). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1163270 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:25:12 +0000 mrsjazz 1163270@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Auntie/Uncle is reserved for close friends only. Everyone else LO will call Miss or Mr. Firstname. This is how I was taught to address adults when I was younger as a sign of respect. As a matter of fact, I still call a couple of my mom's friends Miss Firstname out of habit. I don't think little kids should address adults by their first names unless an adult specifically requests it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1163268 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:24:58 +0000 Adira 1163268@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents don't have any friends, so I didn't have this growing up! Which left me confused as to what to do with Xander!!</p> <p>For now, my plan is for him to call my BFF Aunt so-and-so, and then I think everyone else will be Mr./Miss Firstname. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1163251 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:20:50 +0000 plantains 1163251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Aunty and Uncle is what we have done so far. I do not want my LO calling adults by their first name at all, the idea really bugs me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1163230 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:13:59 +0000 Mae 1163230@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I grew up calling my parents' friends by just their first name. None of my friends have kids old enough to call me anything but I have a ton of cousins who have kids and they all call me by my first name (not "cousin Mae" or anything). </p> <p>I think when we have a kid we will mostly teach them to just call people by their first name, but our close friends will definitely be aunt/uncle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1163222 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:10:02 +0000 mjane 1163222@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: We are the exact same way, with our friends and with our actually nieces &amp; nephews. Surprised that we are so in the minority! We have one friend that refers to herself as Auntie Our-nickname-for-her and so we use it around LO but it is really just a sign of affection... I think? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1161869 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 14:20:58 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 1161869@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH and I both grew up calling our parent's friends and the parents of our friends Mr and Miss first name. We'll have our kids do the same. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1161863 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 14:16:41 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1161863@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Auntie or uncle as a sign of respect if they're Asian, Mr. and Mrs. for all other Americans in general, and first names if they're Swedish (since anything else would be weird). It sounds complicated, but it's the only way it would work for us since we live abroad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1161801 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 12:32:01 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1161801@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I grew up using Aunt or Uncle or Ms. or Mr. depending on when I came in contact with people. I can distinctly remember when I met the Ms. or Mr., but the Aunts and Uncles were always there if yhat makes sense. I once asked my mom if I could change from calling one of her friends Ms. to Aunt because we had become so close.</p> <p>I'm not sure what we will do just yet, but our friends will not simply be referred to by their first name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1161797 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 12:28:04 +0000 nana87 1161797@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>growing up i just called my parents friends by their first names, and dh's family is actually a LOT more formal than mine, but he called his parents friends by their first names too. so we'll mostly stick with that for our lo. but with some of our closest friends we might say uncle or auntie, not as a sign of respect but of affection. dh's bff already asked if he could be uncle, haha. on the flip side, my niece knows dh and I are her uncle and aunt, but she just calls us by our first names (which is what we did growing up too). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1161789 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 12:10:39 +0000 .twist. 1161789@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A few of my very close girlfriends are auntie so and so. I don't know if it will stick, but for now that's how it is. I think for people older than my peer group, we will encourage him to call them mrs or mr last name. But our peer group will probably just be their first name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt/page/2#post-1161778 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:51:38 +0000 lioneyes 1161778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i grew up calling adults by their first names. now that my close friends have kids, they refer to me and DH (to their kids) as aunt and uncle. i don't think it's a sign of respect though, i think it's how they refer to their closest friends to their kids, and i plan to do the same. mr/mrs makes me ill. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt#post-1160785 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 13:28:56 +0000 fussygal 1160785@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our friends kids call us auntie/uncle and it's really normal around here, especially for close friends. We'll probably do the same for our close ones. I grew up the same way and everyone else we just called by their first name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt#post-1160726 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:59:36 +0000 PointeShoesTutus 1160726@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our good friends have an 18 month old and they call me "Auntie K" with her. It honestly makes me uncomfortable for some reason. I :heart: this baby girl like no other and babysit her all the time. Baby girl obviously adores me, but I'm not her auntie. There was one time at a pool party where baby girl's own mom referred to me as "Mama K" when she was telling another friend how often I watch baby girl. I cringed. Our friends are phenomenal parents and I don't want anyone to think otherwise. </p> <p> I can't explain my reasoning for why it makes me uncomfortable. They do it with all our friends though, mostly because baby girl's biological aunts and uncles live further away. </p> <p>When I was a kid, we called our parents' friends Mrs/Mr Last name until they told us we were allowed to use their first name. But I also have 10 biological aunts and uncles (not including their Spouses) so I think my parents just didn't want us confused. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt#post-1160419 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:03:16 +0000 photojane 1160419@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In the south, or at least my part of the south, we do the auntie/uncle thing with close friends. Everyone else is Miss Firstname/Mr. Firstname. I met my in-laws back when Dan and I were friends in middle school, so I still call them Miss ___ and Mr. ____. It is so weird, but I can't change it now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt#post-1160412 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:00:36 +0000 matador84 1160412@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All our close friends are auntie/uncle...they love it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt#post-1160333 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:09:17 +0000 brownie 1160333@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Since we call our friends (3 couples with 4 kids between us) by their first names, this is what our kids have learned. When we directly talk to the kids we do use the miss/mister in front of the first names. But they pick up more on what we use in our language so first names only. Our 3 year old friend is pretty good at the miss/mister but my 2 year old is not a good talker and we are lucky if he says their first names (so he knows the short names like "Mac" but not the hard names like "lyssa"). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt#post-1160330 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:06:01 +0000 swedishfish 1160330@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: I have nine aunts and nine uncles so I was brought up the same way @anonysquire: was. Mr. And Mrs. last name and I live on LI. I've noticed the tides have changed though - we are being referred to by just our first names to friends' children. Our LO can't even talk yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt#post-1160327 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 06:58:51 +0000 maybebaby 1160327@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our LO is only 4 months, but WE call our best friends Aunt/Uncle Firstname when Jack is around. Our close friends have a 3 year old and an 18 month old, and DH and I are the kids' legal guardians if the event came up--but they both call us by our first name, which feels totally normal. I wouldn't mind "aunt" but Mrs. would make me feel old! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt#post-1160326 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 06:55:59 +0000 Andrea 1160326@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: I think it's the norm around us to use first names only. It seems odd to me, too! I think people would find uncle/aunty weird, though. How about doing Miss Andrea etc instead? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt#post-1160321 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 06:43:26 +0000 artsyfartsy 1160321@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a friend who my son will call Uncle Pookie. He's my husbands best friend and almost brother. Pookie is his nickname. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt#post-1160313 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 06:19:11 +0000 Dandelion 1160313@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My BFF's kids call me Aunt Dandelion, but all my other friends' kids call me Ms. Dandelion. I don't go by Mrs. Lastname, because it's different than DS's last name and it might get confusing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt#post-1160266 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 03:00:58 +0000 Grace 1160266@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know. Several of my friends tried to get their kids to call me "auntie", but it always felt weird to me. I have no problem with kids calling me by my first name and they've never taken advantage of it to show disrespect. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-call-your-friends-uncleaunt#post-1160265 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 02:50:33 +0000 loveisstrange 1160265@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My BFF is "Aunt so-and-so". She's Cs guardian and has been my best friend since we were 13 and we're pretty much family at this point anyway. It just feels right. </p>