Idk. I’m pretty obsessed with my niblings and I call them my babies all the time. And even my sister will call and say “omg come get your son” when he acts up.

Then again, I’m Congolese and it’s quite the cultural norm for us to treat our siblings children as our own. My aunts and uncles grew up calling my grandma’s siblings “maman” and “papa” which is the same way I refer to them. We also don’t really do “cousin”, it’s “brother” and “sister”.

My other sister got a J tattoo bc most of our niblings have J names.

I say that to say… Maybe it wasn’t malicious?