I think we should come up with a new title for what your kids should call your cousins. Any ideas?

Just one typo in there would have made this question HILARIOUS!

as a chld growing up we always called them aunt and uncle….i think that worked…a measure of respect goes a long way….as kids we knew they werent’ really are aunt and uncle but it was the respect for th e person that was important

Great cousins?

Mr/Mrs/Ms. Whatever their first or last name is? Making a new term will just confuse everyone.

@Blackberry I think that’s too formal.

@stratman37 ; Do you think I didn’t check and double check? I AM the typo queen.

@Blackberry ; that’s not very creative of you!!!
@evil2; that’s the idea, but I really wanted to have fun with this.

I told my cousin’s sons that they could call me their “Great Cousin” or their “Grandcousin”. Either way has a nice ring to it. I told them I’d call them my “Very Fine Nephews”, just so we keep our priorities and naming conventions straight.

When I was a kid, we called our “older” cousins “cousin”.
My elderly cousin Margaret was “Cousin Marg”. It showed her respect with a “title” and set her apart from our cousins who were more our age. It also differentiated her from our Aunt Marg.

I’m not good at these things then lol. I tried.

In my case, yahoos from the back woods.

Well… In my part of the country and with my group not sure which subgroups other than Southern this holds true for, adult female relations who are close enough to be considered family or who are family, but don’t have a title are often referred to as “Auntie” with is different from the actual “Aunts” who hold that position. I think its a way of letting the kids know who is important/family. No clue what to do about the guys.

my family has always called members of the previous generation “Uncle” and “Aunt”, regardless of their actual relationship. I have a cousin who’s a good 25 years older than me (my father had 7 brothers, there’s a wide variety in ages of the next generation). He was always Uncle Eddie to me. His kids, my cousins-once-removed were more like my “real” cousins.

In some cases, that extends even to friends of the family who aren’t related at all. Right now, my college buddy and his wife have introduced me to their 2 year old son as “Uncle”. <shrug> I see nothing wrong with it.

@Ghost_in_the_system Do we have the same family???????????

I’ve been teaching my son to add Aunt and Uncle, especially to the cousins I’m closest to which are the ones he sees most often.
I have issues with there not being a title for them, because I think it’s disrespectful. So, we just do Aunt and Uncle (after he learns their first name)

@baileysmom12 Could be . these folks are scattered over a lot of back woods.

Since my family has southern roots, almost everybody is considered a cousin of some sort, unless they already hold another title such as Aunt, Uncle, Grampa, Ya-Yo, or whatever. Certain members of the family can tell you exactly what sort of cousin all of them are (1st cousin twice removed on your father’s side, for example). Ones that are older are “Cousin Tom” or “Cousin Peggy,” while those that are the same age as or younger than you are just called by their names.

Thus, the appropriate title for a cousin is the term “Cousin” plus their first name. We really don’t need to reinvent the wheel here.

It is still appropriate for them to call your cousins Aunt and Uncle.
If you want to make up a name, call them corms. Cousin Once ReMoved.

By their names.

Familial Unit. Familial Unit One, Familial Unit Two, Familial Unit Three…etc. etc. More Star Trekkish….ya’ think?

Well, you could just switch the titles. My kids call our cousins Aunt and Uncle, but each of them went through a phase as toddlers where they couldn’t quite keep them straight. They’d throw out an “Uncle Deb” or an “Aunt Mike.” It kind of stuck for a while. Also promotes gender neutrality. ;)

Titi (tee-tee) Mary and Tata (tah-tah) John.

Spanish.

BTW…it’s not “proper” Spanish…they are terms of endearment….for Aunt/Uncle.

Proper Spanish….would be “Tio” and “Tia”.

Cousin…which is also used in Spanish…is “Primo John” and “Prima Mary”.

How about Momma Cuz or Daddy Cuz

I say Counkle and Caunty!

I’m with @Zen_Again . We’‘ve always called our aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. just by whatever their name is. Grandmas and Grandpas weren’t called by their proper names, but rather Grandma or Grandpa.

I think we should call them Puddles and Poddles. Puddles for the males and Poddles for the women. Perfect. Problem solved.

@Ghost_in_the_system – hilarious!!! I am still chuckling here.

As kids growing up, we always referred to adult cousins as “Aunt” or “Uncle”, especially if their children were the same age as we were. The same applied to family friends. Now, however, I allow my children to address adlut cousins as “Cousin So-and-So”, different title, no less respectful.

I’m still frustrated that there were so few CREATIVE answers. I wasn’t so much interested in appropriate or correct, I was looking do a new title all together.