To want my adult niece and nephew to call my Aunty Emma?

I had an uncle in the year below me at school, so no, I never called him Uncle Pete. That would have been really weird.

I'm well over 40, and I still use "Aunt" and "Uncle". It would have felt odd to suddenly change that. My 60+ parents still refer to their 80+/90+/deceased aunts and uncles as "Aunt X" or "Uncle Y".

We actually do use the Cousin title in my family 😅 I call my mum's cousins Cousin Anne, Cousin Sarah etc.

My three year old son uses it for his cousins too but that sort of happened by accident and wasn't intentional.

Yep same. It would be considered massively disrespectful to drop the titles in my family.

I'm nearly 50, and still refer to my Aunt's and Uncles as 'Auntie 'insert name' and 'Uncle 'insert name'!! It's just something I have always done, and never given it much thought. I don't think any of them would actually be offended if I called them by their first name, and missed off the Aunt or Uncle part. I guess it's just a habit, that I've never stopped!!

Aunties and Uncles all the way here!

DH and I also call each other's aunts and uncles Auntie Agnes, Uncle David etc.

I disagree entirely. I am in my 60's and am extremely close to a couple of my aunts. I dropped the titles when I was a teenager, at their suggestion. I see and speak to them often, they are more like older sisters - the oldest is only ten years older than me. In our family, the ones who are called auntie, tend to be the ones we are not close to and don't really stay in touch with. Children in the family do call aunties and uncles by the titles, in fact they call my mum nanny even though she's actually their great grandmother.

i am in my 50s and would call my aunt and uncle Auntie x and Uncle x.

I'm 54 & still call my aunts & uncles as this, feels odd to do otherwise. My 3DC, teen & adults call all my siblings auntie & uncles still.
Occasionally youngest DB calls our mum by her name just to wind her up

@Elsvieta

Well this is the thing, she doesn't know. DS1 once asked her what her actual name was and she said, 'Auntie X'. She cannot let children/me know that she's a mere mortal like us! She has to elevate herself above people younger than her.

My nieces call me Auntie Red I hope they continue to for a long time. But if they dropped it then I'd respect their choice. My best friends children (24, 27 & 31) all call me Aunt Red. Again if they drop it that's fine.

I've got 2 Aunts & an Uncle - all in their 80s who ill always call Aunt & Uncle.

My Mums grown up nieces & nephews & their families all call her Aunt (first name) too

I'm in my 40s and still say Auntie and Uncle. It would feel so weird just calling them by their first name. And it feels more special.

My adult niece and nephew however have always just called me by my first name (yet my friends kids call me Auntie).

I’m 36 and still use the title auntie and uncle, it’s strange the thought of not calling them it and just using first names.

I always dropped "Auntie" when my nieces, nephews and godchildren got to about 15. Although some of them would forget sometimes, even into their early 20s, which was quite funny.
It doe feel wrong to ask another adult to call me "Auntie", I have to say.

Yabu

My aunt always writes love from Auntie and Uncle in their Christmas card to me. I am 52! I decided to stop putting auntie and uncle in cards I write to my nieces and nephews when they turn 18.

Got to ask - what does she want you to call her?!

"Cheeky"? A 28yo?

What next? Naughty? Disobedient? Dear me.

I do too with my aunts and uncles. We have a more distant relationship though that I have with my nieces and nephews.

its one word. I hint out a great weight on it. It doesn’t convey respect - just habit and family tradition.

I know my nieces and nephews know and love me a lot more than I know and love my aunties and uncles. They just prefer to call me by my first name with no title.

im in my 40’s and one of the youngest of many cousins, we all use aunty & uncle 😂

I don't think you are unreasonable to expect your nieces and nephews not to change what they have always called you.

I think you make yourself sound a bit daft with I corrected him and asked him why he called me Emma. I wouldn't have said anything. It is up to them really.

However, I am surprised by the balance of votes, and comments.
All my adult nieces and nephews, and also the dc of good friends still call me "AuntyNew", and I call my one remaining blood-related Aunty, and 3 (not really relatives) Uncles and Aunts 'Aunty X' / 'Uncle Y', and I'm retired.

I’m fifty and I am absolutely can’t bring myself to drop the aunt/uncle but I certainly can’t imagine insisting my nieces and nephews use it for me when they are older.

Your 'cheeky nephew' is nearly 30 and you're framing him as an 8 year old pushing boundaries.
We are all entitled to ask to be called by the names we prefer, whether it's married vs maiden names, nicknames vs full names, using Dr vs Miss/Ms/ Mrs but I'd have a think about why you are asking this of two fellow adults.
I love being Auntie PinkArt but can't imagine insisting on this when my niblings are grown up.

I do. It's automatic, it's what they've always been to me, though I see them so rarely now. One uncle did say something about it, but I just find it hard to drop it.

Couldn't imagine not calling my uncle Harry "uncle Harry"

Even when I'm referring to
Him I have to say uncle

Yanbu I think it's a respect thing!

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