Age gaps between your children that make younger ones, young Aunts and Uncles.

There is a 16 year gap between DD1 and DS, so he became an uncle aged 10. His eldest nephew is now 5 and loves playing computer games with his uncle.

My son became Uncle to his sister's son at 12 they have always been very close. Last year my GD became Auntie to her sister's son when she was 10 she loves playing with the little ones.

I've got 21 years between my oldest and youngest. My youngest became an aunt at 13, when my oldest had his first child in his 30's.

When I was at junior school a boy in my brother's class had a nephew who was older than him. It always puzzled me greatly how an uncle could be younger than his nephew!

Minibags became an auntie at the age of eight. She is DD3 and there are nearly twenty years between her and DD1.

When I was a student I used to babysit for someone whose children from his second marriage were younger than his grandchildren.

DH had two families. His first family are 40, 38 and 35 and his second family are 11 and 8. Although the younger children know their older siblings but they don't have sibling type relationships with them.

My DH is youngest of 4. His sister is 15 yrs older. I am oldest of 3. I am 11 years older than younger brother. DH was 7 when he became an uncle and we tend to socialise more with his sister's children as they are closer to our age. Cousin wise our DDs have no cousin's of similar ages to them. The 8yr gap to the nearest in age,when you only see each other occasionally seems greater!

VampireQueen, that may improve as the young ones get older. Although my (now ex)step daughter, who is 32, and my DD, who is her half sister, do not speak now. The eldest has not even met the 9 month old baby, although my DD has met her niece and nephew. I think it is terribly sad, and if I was parent to both (as their useless Dad is), I would bang their heads together!

My eldest sister is 21 years older than me...of 11 we are closet....I was 2 when I became an aunt....sadly we lost my niece at 55 last year....my mum was a granny at 39.... and would have not become a great grandmother until 80....my niece was 41 when she had twin boys

There are 16 years between my elder and younger sister and my younger sister became an aunt at 12 when I had my first baby.

MiL was the youngest of 8 her oldest sibling was 22 yrs older than her so if she and her husband had had children MIL would have been an aunt at a very young age.

I became an Auntie at 5 years old, my 2 Nephews were born a couple of months apart.They always called me Auntie never just my name, that must have been very strange to outsiders

My son is uncle to my granddaughter who is two years older than he is.

My youngest son complained of being tired when he was about 7 and put it down to the responsibilities of being 'born an uncle'.

My sister is 12.5 years older than me and her first child was born when I was 10, the next at 11 and the third when I was 12 years old. We are all very close although my sister and I had a time when we didn't speak for 10 years, it was her girls that brought us back together, for which I will always be grateful.

My grandmother had 13 children over a period of 21 years which meant (first born) my Uncle Harold's children were born before my Auntie Muriel (last born) was born.

My children have half siblings so they became uncles at age 3 and nearly 6. When we told our older son he was going to become an uncle, he replied "I@m not ready for to be an uncle, I'm only 5"

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I am the eldest of five kids. My youngest sister was born when my eldest daughter was four months old. They were very close when young, but have not seen each other for years now.

My sisters were adults and married when I was born late to my mother. I am just five years older than my eldest nephew and eight years older than my eldest niece. I am glad to say that neither of them have ever called me "auntie"!

Mick Jagger's dynasty is quite confusing, he's going to be a father again soon and that child will presumably be a great uncle/aunt to his great grandchild, I think

My first niece was born when I was 5. Another niece, 10 years younger than me, once asked my sister who I was, as she couldn't see how I fitted into the family! I was the youngest of 5, the others being 16,14,13 and 8 when I was born.

My Dad came from a big family - he was the youngest but one of thirteen. His elder sisters were married young and producing their own families before my Dad was born - hence he had several nieces and nephews older than him, and a nephew of the same age and name who was in the same regiment in WW2 - very confusing!

There was 21 years between my DH's eldest and youngest sisters so my youngest DSiL became an auntie at 2. They were definitely more like sister and brother.

My father had been married before and divorced. He had a daughter born in 1934. After he married my Mum in 1946 he had three more children, my older sister was born in 1952 and our half sister got married in 1954. She had her first child, a daughter, in the Summer of 1955 just before I was born in the August of 1955 - so my sister was an Auntie aged just two years, our half sister went on to have two more children after I was born so I too became an Auntie at a very young age. I have a similar thing on my late husband's family side - he was an unexpected late baby born in 1952 and my sisters in law were born in 1941 and 1943, his first nephew was born in 1962, when he was ten years old. His youngest nephew was born in 1967. I have always felt much more like their older sister (I was 7 in 1962 and 12 in 1967), especially once they got married and I soon became a gt-aunt. I became a Gt gt Aunt at 59 when my eldest gt niece had her first baby. My daughter is more in the age group of my gt nieces rather than her own older cousins!

My DH is the third of six children. The eldest is 14 years older than the youngest and two of her grandchildren are older than her youngest brother's children. MIL is still alive and now has more great grandchildren than grandchildren. Unsurprisingly she sometimes gets confused about who we are talking about ?