When relatives "forget" my kids names

[SweatyArseCrack]

AIBU to find it annoying when my grandparents continually ask what my kids names are? My eldest is 10 now, surely in 10 years you start to remember? Instead they always say "what's the little one called again?" or "What does the eldest want for his birthday?" etc etc yet they can remember my cousins kids names with ease.

And they do see my kids, its not as if we're long distance relatives Its like they do it on purpose.

my Ols always forget my dds name and she is their granddaughter, they call her variations starting with different letters or just random names. drives me mad.

Is there perhaps a lingering discontent about your choice of names?

Challenge them.

"He's TEN YEARS OLD! I've not changed his name, it's always been the same! how can you not remember?!"

Unless you think they have some sort of dementia, which I'm guessing you don't?

It's not unreasonable to be annoyed.

It IS unreasonable to fume quietly instead of asking them how on earth they manage to keep forgetting their grandchildrens names.

oh, but if your kids are called Quarquislottle and Jerithisymathinka, then YABVU.

Start forgetting their names too...

I used to work beside a nutter woman who called her son Kyle and insisted it be pronounced something like Kyo. I could never quite get it right - it sounded Ok to me but drove her bananas - so I stopped using his name altogether. Could it be something like that?