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Perhaps explain it to her, I am sure she/they'll understand... ?
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My brothers / SIL are Aunty first name / Uncle first name but I dont really like the concept of calling friends Aunty / Uncle - to me that's an endearment / sign of respect for family. I still cant bring myself to refer to SIL's fiance as Uncle (I'm not fully convinced they will get married I guess).

Older family friends / neighbours are Mr / Mrs Last Name, unless they come back and say they'd rather first names.

Good friends of our age we just use their first name.

The look on DS's face (20mths) when we try to explain that Rebecca is Reuben's (his best friend) Mummy was really cute, it was like he couldnt fathom there being more than one Mummy (me) in the whole world

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Originally posted by caliandjack caliandjack wrote:

Originally posted by newlywed newlywed wrote:

I think ask the person what they would like to be called. Often they're comfortable with their first name these days.


That's the thing though, I'm not comfortable with my Dad's wife being called Nana or Grandma.

Her grandson calls my Dad, Poppa but then thats a decision her daughter is happy with.

She's only related cause she's married to my Dad. I'd prefer her to simply go by her first name as that's what my nieces call her and am happy with the same for my daughter.

If my mum was still alive she'd be Nana and I don't feel comfortable giving that title to anyone else.


Sounds fair enough to me!
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