What do you call your grandparents?

darkskyy

What do you call your grandparents and why?

Mine are/were Grandma & Grandpa (self explanatory), and Nonna and Nonno (they moved to the states from Europe - it's Grandma and Grandpa in various latin based languages).

So my parents will be called by my kids Grandma and Nonno.

MIL and FIL want to be called "Nauna" and "Buddy".  Nauna because one of her Italian friends goes by Nonna, and MIL doesn't comprehend the significance.  And Buddy, well, because he doesn't think he's old enough to be Grandpa. As much as I want to give them leeway on this, and will probably have to end up with whatever they want, I'd love to give them some alternatives

KelzinBoston

My Grandparents have always just been Grandma/Grandpa.

MIL has requested to be Grammy, which is tradition in DH's family and is fine by me.  FIL is either Grandpa or Granddad.

My Dad is Grandpa, my Mom wanted to be Grandmum (she's Canadian), but we've all been teaching our children Grandma instead and she's not arguing with us about it, haha.

ShellShockedMama

I've only ever had one. I don't like her that much b/c she doesn't like me or my sister. I call her Grandma.

BAM_2780

My dad's parents died before I was born, but my mom's parents were Nana and Grampy.

My parents will be Grammy and Grampy/Grandpa.  My ILs will be Grandma and Granddad.  I like that they will have different names so we don't have to refer to them as Grandma M and Grandma E, etc. 

HugginAngel

I only knew one set and they are Grandma and Grandpa.

My Hubby's family..welll that's a whole different ball of wax. His family still calls his "maw maw"  and "paw paw" mostly because both his parents-parents were born in Lousiana. Our nephews call my IL's "mom mom" and "pa pa" That bugs me because my 26yr old BIL sounds like a goon saying that when talking to his kids. Can I be a brat and make my kid call them grandma and grandpa? 

SoulfulWhim5862

I referred to my moms parents as grandma and papa.  My dads parents were Ma and Papa. 

ShellShockedMama

DH's grandparents (one set living) are mee-maw and pa-paw.

::::shudder:::::

Staribeth

My grandparents on my mom's side were Nana and Pap and on my dad's side we called them Grandma and Pop-Pop.

I asked my parents what they wanted to be called because in my opinion they are the ones that will have to deal with the name the most! They decided they will be Nana and Pop-Pop.  

stacieann15

My dad's parents were Grandma and Grandpa. My mom's parents are (I'll try to spell these phonetically) Me-Maw and Pea-Paw. My Pea-Paw's parents were Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw. My Me-Maw's mom was Grandma. (I was incredibly lucky to know all of my grandparents and two great grandmothers and a great grandfather.)

My parents will probably be Grandma and Grandpa. Who knows with my husband's parents. Probably the same (we have a little bit of a touchy situation. My husband's mother is deceased and his father remarried 5 years ago -- she couldn't understand why my husband, at 24 years old, wouldn't call her Mom. However, since she is the only grandmother our kids will know on that side, she will be Grandma, or whatever).

BUT -- sometimes kids get strange ideas. My cousin's son calls my aunt Bart. My other uncle convinced his grandchildren to call him King Pa-Paw.

darkskyy

stacieann15:

My dad's parents were Grandma and Grandpa. My mom's parents are (I'll try to spell these phonetically) Me-Maw and Pea-Paw. My Pea-Paw's parents were Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw. My Me-Maw's mom was Grandma. (I was incredibly lucky to know all of my grandparents and two great grandmothers and a great grandfather.)

My parents will probably be Grandma and Grandpa. Who knows with my husband's parents. Probably the same (we have a little bit of a touchy situation. My husband's mother is deceased and his father remarried 5 years ago -- she couldn't understand why my husband, at 24 years old, wouldn't call her Mom. However, since she is the only grandmother our kids will know on that side, she will be Grandma, or whatever).

BUT -- sometimes kids get strange ideas. My cousin's son calls my aunt Bart. My other uncle convinced his grandchildren to call him King Pa-Paw.

Woah.  You win... I don't feel so bad now about nauna and buddy!!! LOL...

Staribeth

My Grandma's cousin, who we are very close with, is referred to as Pita (pain-in-the-a$$). This is what her husband always calls her and it stuck!

CoastieWife08

I have only ever called my grandparents Grandma and Grandpa.  When trying to differentiate between the two sets, I used Grandma and Grandpa Lastname.

DD calls the IL's Grandma and Pa, my dad Pop-Pop and his gf Nana, and then she calls my mom and stepdad Grandma and Grandpa.

I know she'll change their names over the years and call them what she wants to.  We never picked out names for her to use and left it up to her to come up with what she wants.

My sister and brother's kids call my mom and stepdad Grandma and Grandpa FirstName and it drives me insane.  I could never imagine calling my Grandparents by their first names, and it's the one name we refuse to let DD use.  It just isn't respectful, imo.

kellieok

I call my grandpa "PaPa" and my grandma "grams"... My other grandparents were called Grandma/Grandpa paired with their last name...

DH and his brothers called their grandparents Tutu or Papa paired with their last name (Tutu is the hawaiian slang for grandma)...

My MIL originally said she wants to be called Nana (which is the Filipino way to say grandma)...

My step-dad will be called Gong Gong (which is the Chinese way to call the maternal grandfather) since he's chinese...

I dunno I guess here in Hawaii things are different (like culturally)... My DH btw is super mixed... he's Hawaiian, Filipino, Chinese, Spanish, German, Irish, Frnech, and Portuguese... whereas I'm only Japanese but my stepdad is Chinese...

lsugirljen

I had three sets, I know, Mom's parent's - Nana and Papa- I was oldest grandchild and called my grandmother Nana and it stuck. Dad's parents- dad and stepmom - Mimi and Pawpaw, mom and step dad Meme and Pepe.And to make it even better, the older grandkids called her Mawmaw, there is a distinct line of those that called her Meme and Mawmaw.

mamaholic

I only new my two grandmas and they were Grammy and Gram. I have a friend who calls his grandparents Ma and Pa... Blech.

vlewis515

On my Mom's side I have Nana and Grandad. Nana we also call Nannie and Nan (which I apparently came up with as a small child). All her friends think Nan is young and fun, at least one of them has decided to go by Nan also.

On my Dad's side I have Grandma and Grandpa, but when we were little we called them Mamo and Papo (or Mawmo and Pawpo, is more what it sounded like). Don't know why we switched, we just did.

My parents are Pop and T. My mom's name is Catherine, my dad used to call her Catrina, which he then shortened to Trina, they were going to call her Trina for her "grandma" name but then my niece couldn't say it and it got shortened to T.

MIL and FIL are Nawna and Pawpa...no fun stories there, that's just what they picked. I don't like those names either!

AMG06

Staribeth:

My grandparents on my mom's side were Nana and Pap and on my dad's side we called them Grandma and Pop-Pop.

I asked my parents what they wanted to be called because in my opinion they are the ones that will have to deal with the name the most! They decided they will be Nana and Pop-Pop.  

This. (And can I say I've never known anyone else who has had a "Pap"?) My dad's side are just Grandma/Grandpa.

My parents and IL's will both be Grandma/Grandpa. Although everyone calls my dad Bobbo, I'm sure the grandkids will as well.

chusum

My grandparents were Nana, grandpa (x2), and grandma. Nothing special. My DH's mom is already Gamma named by my niece, and my dad and step mom have not been named by a grandchild yet, but we have already discussed names. My step mom is going to be Titita (combination of abuelita (spanish form of grandma plus -ita), and part of her family nickname. My dad is totally hating this, but we want to call him Papo. My stepmom, sister & I all made it up! Papa is the spanish word for dad, and we just added an "O". It sounds like frog in spanish (sapo) so he hates it, but the more he fights it the more we call him that! Kind of fun.

Brady1*

My Mothers parents are Nana and Grampy. My Great Grandmother on Moms side was Nana O.  My Fathers parents are Gram and Papa. My parents will be Nannie and Papa. My Great Grandmother on Dad's side was Nani (pronounced Nah-knee) because my Dad couldn't say Nonnie when he was little.

 DH's parents, requested Grampy and Nana first name. Which I think Nana First name is very cold and not very grandmotherly, and I will never refer to her as that, it will be Nana. But she will be cold and not very grandmotherly to our children so I guess it fits. 

sinisterkat01

Grandma and Grandpa.

Pretty simple.

We knew the Polish names for my grandparents, but really didn't use those on a regular basis.

Erin RN

Just Grandma and Grandpa for both mine and DH's grandparents. Our baby will call my parent's and DH's mom the same.

islelily

Both sets of grandparents were Gram and Papa. We distinguished gifts by their last names, however, it was easy to know who my folks were talking about since one set lived in our state, and the other lived up north.

My parents have requested to be called Nan (Nanny, DH and I like Nan best) and Papa.

DH's parents are being called what the other grandkids call them already: Grammy and PopPop.

SaraRow

This is so fascinating, and I'm getting great ideas We called my mom's parents Grandma and Grandpa, and my dad's parents Grandma and Grandad. H is from good ol' Southern stock, and his are Granny and Pa, and Nana and Granddad - great-grandma was Me-Maw, great-grandpa was Pe-Paw.

My mom and step-dad are already Gramma and Pop-Pop from my step-brother's kids. My dad and step-mom haven't picked anything out specifically but I would imagine they'll be Grandma and Granddad. My ILs... who knows? They probably expect something like Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw, but that won't fly with me. As a previous poster said, hearing a grown person call someone Maw-Maw just strikes me as silly.