Did you grow up calling your parent's friends Aunt or Uncle? Will you have your kids do the same?
I did and LO will too!
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I didn't, but my son probably will.
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Some were Aunt and Uncle, while others just had a Mr. or Miss in front of their first names. I plan to do both.
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Yes, all of my parents' friends were "aunt and uncle so-and-so". I'm sure we'll do the same!
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I didn't, none of my mom's friends were aunt/uncle. But I will have some of my closer friends be referred to as aunt and uncle for LO!
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My mom's best friend is still Aunt Chris, as is some of my mom's cousin, I call them Aunt and Uncle even though they are techincally my cousins as well.
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Some were and some weren’t. The really really close friends were either aunt/uncle or grandma/grandpa. My dad was involved in a group that consisted of mostly older couples and they felt more comfortable in the grandma/grandpa role. I’m not sure if our kids will call our friends aunt/uncle. Right now we’re in a mid-stage after moving to a different town where we don’t have any super close friends….at least none that I’d feel comfortable to do this. Our goal is to have friends that ARE that close though so I’m hoping we get to that point.
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I did...and my mom made sure I did! Now when we visit our friends, I refer to them as uncle/auntie to LO
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I did, not sure I will make DD do it, though. It doesn't seem very common where we live now.
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I didn't, but I had something like 22 real aunts and uncles already (not counting great aunts/uncles!). My husband's best friend is already referring to himself as "Uncle Andrew", and though I don't love it, if that's what he really wants our LO to call him I won't make an issue of it.
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I did and I think our LOs will do the same.
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My parents made me call everyone "aunt" and "uncle" in chinese but it was just aunt and uncle (in chinese) without their name. So everyone was just aunt and uncle, which made it easy for me I guess because I didn't have to remember names. Now, we also tell LOs to call friends aunt/uncle, but with their name.
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Hubs did (I guess it's a Chinese thing?)...We do with LO, even to our non-Asian friends.
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i don't remember, so i guess no. i think that our LO will. our friends who live in hawaii call us auntie and uncle to their kids and it kinda sticks.
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Yup, we do. It seems nicer than just having him call my friends by their first names. My friend's daughter calls my husband by his first name and it feels kinda weird for some reason.
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I didn't. I called all of my parents friends Mr and Mrs last name. Haha. I won't be making our lo do that. I'll let my friends decided what they want to be called.
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I didn't...I'd like to have LO do that, but I'm afraid that my sister would be offended/hurt.
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i didn't but we refer our friends as auntie/uncles for LO.
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My mom had a close friend growing up that I referred to as Aunt X and her husband was Uncle X. They were the only ones though. We have a friend that we refer to as Uncle to LO. They love each other!
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I didn't. Some of our friends now call me Aunt but some Mrs. Since I have such a huge family, I will probably go with Mr and Mrs since they will have enough aunts and uncles.
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I didn't, but I had lots of aunts and uncles close by. I'll probably refer to my two closest girlfriends and their husbands as aunt and uncle when I have kids, especially because my husband has one brother and I'm an only child, so my kids won't have lots of aunts/uncles/cousins.
I've always called my aunts, uncles, and parents' friends by their first names, though, and I'm sure my kids will do the same. I think it's unnecessarily formal to use Aunt/Uncle ______ or Mr./Mrs. _____.
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We didn't have any honorary aunts or uncles, but LO will. My BFF and her hubs are aunt and uncle, our kids are 'cousins'. As soon as she got pregnant, I told her that I'm demanding auntie status!
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I didn't as a kid, but all my close girlfriend are aunties! Some friend even signed their cards to me for gifts as "auntie so and so"
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My stepmom's best friend and her husband were "Aunt Gayle" and "Uncle Freddy" but that was it. McBebe will probably have lots of "Aunts" and "Uncles" among our friends, though.
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Some of them. We are doing this with all my cousins and most close friends. Mr superhero started it
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we always called my parents' best friends from high school aunts and uncle. In fact, I didn't find out until middle school that we weren't blood related!
I have one close friend that DD will probably call aunt, but she is actually DH's cousin through marriage so it isn't that weird to call her aunt anyways!
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Yea, I did... it's common in Filipino circles to call everyone your parent's age "Auntie" and "Uncle"
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I didn't as a kid, but our LOs will probably have a couple of "uncles" (DH's friends) because DH is an only child and his close friends are like brothers to him.
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I didn't, but DH did & we will have DD & new baby do so with special friends.
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I didn't call anyone aunt and uncle if they weren't related to us..
LO calls my friends aunt X and aunt Y, DH's friends uncle this and that. -
Nope. My parents didn't like having honorary aunts and uncles. I think it would be nice and I would try it. Thing is, many of my friends have tried to give me the aunt title and I don't think there's a single kid that it stuck with.
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Most were just Mr. or Mrs. Lastname. The only one we called Aunt was my mom's best friend from grade school. And only because she insisted. I think we'll raise our kids to call our friends Mr. and Mrs. Firstname.
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I disn't ever talk to my parents friends but we have two friends that are married that our daughter calls aunt and uncle.
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My G'ma and Papa's best friends were our honorary "Aunt Ginny and Uncle Alan", but that was it. Some good friends of ours call us Aunt and Uncle.
Honestly, though, my husband isn't a fan. My best friend refers to herself as "Aunt" and it really irritates him. I think mostly because his sister is dead, so the idea of someone else being called Aunt bothers him. Also, he remembers certain people being fake Aunts and Uncles when he was a kid and found it very confusing. -
I did not and my kids won't as well. Not only am I not a fan of it, we don't have any close enough friendships and we have a large enough family that they aren't missing out on having actual aunts and uncles around.
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I did with a few of my mom's few gfs... And our LO(s) will with our close friends as well
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Hubby and I both do, and our LO's will too in the future.
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I didn't but my LO's def do with mine and my exhusbands friends.
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We've been doing it with very close friends since these are people that she'll know all her life.
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