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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
I'm not sure what we will do just yet, but our friends will not simply be referred to by their first name.
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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.
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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.
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@nana87: We are the exact same way, with our friends and with our actually nieces & 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?
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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).
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.
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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.
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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!!
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.
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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.
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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).
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Super close friends are Aunt/Uncle (name). Everyone else is Mr/Ms. (name).
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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