When I first got pregnant, I knew my mom would want to pick some really random name to be called by the baby. When she became an aunt she wanted to be called Aunty Mame. (My cousins called her Mamie instead!). So rather than pick something normal like grandma, nana or nearly anything else, she wanted to be known as Grand. Well, the kids all called her Grandy and today it still stands, even 21 years after she became a grandma.
What do the kids in your family call grandparents? Do you let the kids pick the names? Or the grandparents? Did your parents care? Let me know in the comments what you have to say about naming the grandparents.
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I’m all about tradition and on my side of the family all the women are “Grammas” and it was pretty much a given that my children would call my mother Gramma and when I became a grandmother I never considered anything but Gramma either. In our family the men are Grampa. We distinguished the various grandparents by using the location of where they were. I had Gramma Next Door and Gramma in Boston. I had Grampa next door and Grampa on the Farm. I also had a Gramma Charlotte (my fathers step mother) and Grampa Cliff (my fathers step father). I also had a Great Gramma and a Great Grandpa until I was in my mid-20’s.
In my husbands family there is more diversity – men are PopPop or Pops and women were Nana’s until my mil became a grandmother at 39 and decided she wasn’t old enough to be a Nana – she choose MomMom. So my kids had a Gramma/Grampa and a MomMom/PopPop.
My husband wasn’t sure what he wanted to be and decided he would wait out our oldest grandson and let him choose – when he started talking he quickly started calling my husband Papa and that’s what it was. Since my husband was Papa, my father became Great Papa – the first non-Grampa on my side of the family
My mom chose Gram Gram all of the girls call her that and the boys just call her Gram.
In Spanish, abuelita is used. I decided it would be easiest to say ‘lita, so that’s what I’m hoping he’s old enough that’s what my grandson will call me!
We recently went through this struggle with my parents – we are young, and our parents were young when they had kids. My husband and I both still have great-grandparents living (and active – mine is on facebook!), so they will now be great-great grandparents. We have MawMaw, Grandma, 3 Grannies, Nana, Neenaw, 2 Papas, 2 Grandpas, and Papaw. His parents already have other grandkids and are Mimi and Papa.
My mom is 40 and didn’t want to be Grandma or Granny (or anything she thinks sounds older than 40) and also wants to be Mimi.
My dad has decided to be Darth (yes, as in Darth Vader) I have NO idea where he came up with this, but he wrote it on all our Christmas and Baby Shower gifts!
I always had ” Grandmas and Grandpas” and a “Nana and Papaw”.. Now that I have children my Nana who is my childrens great grandma is “GG” them. (GG = Great Grandma.) I love it. And on my husbands side his “Mamaw” is now “Funny Grandma” to all her great grandchildren
..(that’s bc she is ALWAYS playing with them and is super duper fun and funny!)
My husband originally insisted that his father’s dad had to be called Granddad, and thus his dad could only be and ought to be called Granddad. His grandmother on that same side is 93, and is the only one allowed to be Nana. His mother’s parents are grandma and grandpa. As a child, my grandparents were Grandma and Grandpa [insert last name]. With my son, I called my out my husband’s arbitrary rule, and his grandparents are called Grandma and Grandpa [insert FIRST name] with one exception – Grandpa Peanut Butter.