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Mucho likes purple nails and purple cupcakes
s/o grandparent nicknames
I really don't get the trend towards cutesy, highly specialized grandparent nicknames. I called my grandparents "Grandma/pa First Name or Last Name" and I suspect we'll do the same (unless one of the grandparents in question has a very strong opinion). This is the first grandchild for everyone, so no precedent has been set.
Grandparents who call dibs and fight over who gets to be called what get the side eye from me.
If you do go the specialized nickname route, are you and your siblings then locked in to whatever was selected with the first grandchild for the entire generation? What if siblings, their spouses and/or IL's have a different nickname in mind, are they just screwed?
Mucho likes purple nails and purple cupcakes
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Re: s/o grandparent nicknames
I've actually asked the grandparents to choose what the want to be called because I do NOT want my child(ren) to call their grandparents by their last name like my husband does.
I think that the grandparent names typically stick through all the grandchildren, at least they did in my and my husband's family (until his cousins who are 22 years younger re-named his one gram.... she has 2 different names now).
I always called my mom's parents grandma/grandpa. My dad's dad died when my dad was 12, so never called him anything, and I didn't see his mom much...honestly, I never really called her anything to her face and referred to her as grandmother.
My mom is grandma as well. It's just normal LOL. However, my MIL, bless her heart, wanted to be called gammy. WTF? My DD is her 5th grandchild so it's set in stone. My DH can't say it...he laughs every time he tries. I've gotten much better. He has even told her, that's so stupid mom (I felt so bad for her).
My DD and her cousins call my DH's grandma GG (for great grandma) which I do think is cute. And my DD will call my grandparents Babcia and Dziadzia, which are Polish for grandma and grandpa but in my family it's always kind of been adapted for the great grandparents.
My parents picked what they wanted SS to call them, and since he was their first grandkid, thats what set the trend. But again, they chose. Grammy and Grandpa (altho SS usually called my dad "bop-bop haha).
So, all their grandbabies will no doubt call them Grammy and Grandpa.
I don't have IL's though, so DH and I don't have to worry about hurt feelings, or whether or not both grandmothers can be Grammy, or if they have to have different names.
Yeah, we don't do crazy names in our families either.
I did have one grandma we called "Grum" which was short for Grandmum but I don't know why we called her that.
I always called my grandma "nanny" and grandpa "papa" on my mom's side..my dad's mom passed when I was born and his dad I just called Papa First Name
My baby can call my mom and dad whaqtever my hubby's parents passed away..Probably call my parents grandma and grandpa..who knows
My DH's family did this. When his sister had babies, his mom had a big to-do about who will be called what. She decided she wanted to be called Mi-Ma. I, personally, hated that name and I told him our kids will NOT call her that. But eventually, his nieces started calling her Mi-Mi. For some reason, this doesn't bother me as much so I'm happy about it.
And my nieces all call my dad Pa-Pa, except one, who calls him Poppi. So really, in the end, it's the kids who decide.
My parents will be grandma and grandpa. Thats how its always been in our family. In laws already go be ga and pap.
I had never heard of cutsey names until DHs family.
Trust me, that's our plan.
My post was just inspired by a previous post describing mother/MIL drama over who will be called what. My point was I don't understand why some grandparents-to-be are hell bent on laying claim to a highly original name. I think it's silly and completely AWish, and I think the grandkids will likely end up calling them whatever they (the kids) come up with anyway.
Mucho likes purple nails and purple cupcakes
Honestly, I was thinking the other day about what my SS's kids will call me. He calls me Bean, so I wonder if that will continue, or, since I will have been in his life as long as he remembers, if I will get a name.
Ok, so weird thing for me to think about, I am hopeful I have at least 25 years before its an issue HAHA.
My sister (who is actually a half) was 5 when my parents met and her daughter calls my mom grandma. She calls my sister's mom Mimi.
I am so glad all the parents just want to be grandma and grandpa. I don't want to go around saying things like, "let's go to mo mo's house." But then again my family doesn't do cutesy names for anything. Kids just learn to use proper language.
My sister (who is actually a half) was 5 when my parents met and her daughter calls my mom grandma. She calls my sister's mom Mimi.
I am so glad all the parents just want to be grandma and grandpa. I don't want to go around saying things like, "let's go to mo mo's house." But then again my family doesn't do cutesy names for anything. Kids just learn to use proper language.
On my mom's side I have 56 first cousins (and I think 23 second cousins). Everyone called my grandma something different (usually siblings within the same family used the same name). Although my grandpa on that side was called the same thing by everyone.
I don't think one child's name for a grandparent locks all the other grandkids into that name. Unless it is the grandparents choice, but usually even then the kids come up with something else as they learn to talk.