What do your kids call their cousins' grandparents?

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I was reminded of this by the "What do your DC call their grandparents" thread... what do your DC call their cousins' grandparents (if anything - obviously lots won't know them)?

I guess in a lot of cases they'll only ever meet at birthday parties, or be talked about, but I'm curious as to what other people do. When I was younger, we called our cousins' GPs Granny/Granda Surname, same as our own GPs, but we knew they weren't our actual GPs. DH thinks this is odd and confusing and they should just call them by their first names, but I think that's a bit forward.

What do others do?

Yes ours still call them Nanny X same as my children and their children.

My niece calls my mother 'Auntie X'. (That is my DHs brothers daughter, so not a blood relation to my mother or me.)

First names.

They don't know them, but I used to call my cousins' grandparents Aunty and Uncle. When I became an adult I just called them by their names.

Auntie X was the thing when I was a child, also for other distant relatives, family friends of grandparents that’s sort of thing. Anyone too familiar to be Mrs X TBH

We just go with first names.

I have cousins the same age as my DD and younger (my DD is 7) so they sometimes see my mum and call her Auntie X.

My DD calls their grandparents who're sometimes there's Grandma and Granddad when with them but Auntie and Uncle oldest cousins first name, when with others.

I have never in my life met the grandparents of my cousins. Mind the Last time I met one of my cousins was a good 5 years ago. So... I guess I would use their name.
I don't foresee a situation where my little one meet the grandparents of their cousins so same story here.

In my family everyone of the same-ish generation as you is a cousin, their children are nieces and nephews, their parents are aunts and uncles.

Obviously outside of your own parents/siblings/children.

First names.

I'm not a massive fan of titles, and felt uncomfortable even at a young age with the habit of calling people 'Auntie X' etc, especially if they weren't my auntie! It held me back a bit in my late teens/early twenties that I'd get so hung up about how to address older adults that I'd avoid talking to them. So I'm all about first names now.

SIL, though, refers to my parents to her kids as 'Granny/Grandad X' and that's fine as it's what she prefers.

We rarely see them but they call them by their first names

My siblings and I called our cousins' grandfather Uncle Charles. He was our grandfather's brother. We called their grandmother's sister on their father's side (so not related to us by blood) her Aunt Rose, just as they did. Our cousins on both sides of the family called our own Grandad 'Uncle Mike'.

I just called them by their names, we aren't a family who uses auntie etc for non relatives. I did call my Mum's auntie and uncle Auntie x and Uncle Y (beacuse my mum did) but they were my grans sister and BiL so still relations

"Paula's gran"
I expect, but never really thought about it. We've all been together at parties etc but I think if she's talking to them she just says "you".

So grandparents siblings? I think when I was a kid we called them auntie and uncle X when we were little, but then by their first names when we were older. I'm doing the same with my own kids as I assumed it was normal!

First names

My nieces call MIL Nanny Firstname.

I know one set of my cousins grandad because he is my uncle's (by marriage) dad, so he's around a fair bit when I'm at their house or other family houses. I just call him his name, his is no relation of mine. I suspect it will be the same when inevitably my daughter meets in utero cousins, other grandparents 😆

Your cousins share a set of grandparents with you, don't they? You mean the other side? Never met them, so don't call them anything.

Aunt and uncle. But then we always had close family friends who we called aunt and uncle.

We would have used nanny x or auntie x.

London, if that matters.

@knittingaddict

Your cousins share a set of grandparents with you, don't they? You mean the other side? Never met them, so don't call them anything.

This! I think.

The question has got me totally confused- my cousins and I share grandparents. And as above, I wouldn't know the grandparents on the other side of their family so wouldn't t call them anything.

I think OP means the 'other side' grandparents, the ones that aren't shared.

I always called them 'X's gran' or I think 'Mrs Surname' for one because that's what my mum called her (would go over to play with kids on her road when we visited sometimes). Other than that first name. They're absolutely no relation so think calling them anything with 'granny' or 'grandad' in the title is pretty weird. I would find it super odd if my husband's niece or nephew referred to my parents with any kind of title - they've met at our wedding, and maybe one other time, I think we introduced them by their name.

Thank goodness toastantea. I do family history and thought I was going a bit mad there.

Grandparents siblings are your great-aunts and uncles, funnily enough I call all my aunts and uncles their first names but great-aunts and uncles all get 'Granny X'. I don't think that's who OP is talking about though.

Mine is too little to call anyone anything yet but we called our cousins’ grandparents by their names.