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Poll - grandparent names
I'm just curious. DH and I have a complicated family. His parents are divorced, his dad is remarried. My mother passed away in 2004 and my dad has since remarried, so we have 2 grandfathers by blood, a grandmother by blood, and 2 step-grandmothers for this baby. Maybe I'm weird, but I don't want our child to call her step-grandmothers "Grandma or Grammy" because they're not really related to her. So we're looking for other alternatives. Mimi, Memere (my dad has a french background), and Nana are the ones we've come up with, but it just made me curious. What will your parents be called by your LO?
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Re: Poll - grandparent names
I have a Memere too (my family is French Canadian)!
Our son will call my IL's Nana and Papa. I am not sure what my parents want to be called. I have a feeling my mom will want to be Grammie and my dad will just be Grandpa.
My Memere will be Memere still (just a great-Memere) and my husband's Mamo will be Great Mamo (it's a Swedish name).
I think if you aren't comfortable with the traditional grandparent names, Nana or Mimi would be really cute.
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dh has a niece that calls DH's parents lita (short for abuelita which is spanish for gandma because my MIL is a spanish teacher) and pop, so we'll probably have our kids call them the same. and my parents will be nana (grandpa) and nani (grandma) which are the names for the maternal grandparents in hindi.
I am not sure yet. We have lots of grandparents too! (It's really complicated!) I do know that DH's mom will be Gramma-Neese. Her name is Denise and she has a step granddaughter who calls her that because she couldn't say Denise when she was little. I have a feeling that it will probably just carry over.
My mom wants to be call Mam?. I'm not exactly sure where it comes from, but her 2nd husbands adoptive parents (told you it was complicated) are Italian so maybe from there, but who knows! We don't really have a good relationship with my mom so I doubt it will matter anyways.
I'd never heard of Memere! What are some other names from different cultures?
My dad is Pops, my stepmom is Eema (mom in Hebrew), my mother is Grandma, DH's mom will be Nunu (both u's are short - not Noo-Noo), and I'm not sure what DH's dad will be.
Speaking of cultural names, when my cousin had her first child, she and her husband were living in Germany, so grandma is Oma and grandpa is Opa.
Here are all the grandparent names used in our family:
Grandmother and Grandfather (original, right?)
Nana and Granddaddy
Grammie and Grampie
Mimi and Gramps
Granny and Pops
And my paternal grandparents were always Clarice and Milton - their first names - to all of their grandkids!!
My parents will be Nana and Granddaddy to our kids and the IL haven't decided what they want their names to be....
Joshy calls my parents Grandma Sheri and Grandpa Steven and DHs mom Grandma Vega we dont speak to DHs dad.... So I guess we will just keep going with that.
He calls his Bio-moms dad papa and I dont know where her mom is I dont think Joshy has even met her....
I called my both my grandpas papa. My Moms parents divorced WAY before I was born I think my mom was 13 or so..... My Papa was remarried before I was born BUT when I was younger I called his wife AUNT sandy DROVE HER NUTS! lol the funny part was I did it all on my own! My mom didnt tell me too and all the other grandkids call her grandma sandy. Now that Im older I just call her Sandy.
I called my dads mom little grandma and my moms mom big grandma. Why you ask?? My moms mom was taller then my dads BUT my dads was really older then her. LOL
My parent's are divorced and both remarried after my brother and I were grown and out of the house.
All the grandkids call the bio-grandparents "Grandpa and Grandma" and the step-grandparents are both called by their first names. (or "Grandpa John")
Then again.... neither of the step-grandparents are all that into the kids so it would be weird to have a specific term of endearment for them, ya know?
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My niece calls my parents Nana and Peepa, it's just what she started calling them and it stuck. I don't know if our child will pick up on that.
I think s/he will come up with his/her own names for the Grandparents, I don't know that we'll push names on them, besides referring to them as Grandma and Grandpa.
My dad said he wants to be called "Grandaddy" and my mom's name is Nancy so she's thinking maybe Neenee (which makes me cringe thinking about Real Housewives of Atlanta, lol) or Nana. Jury's still out on the IL's.
They keep saying that DS will pick something to call us - but what do we refer to them as before she can talk, kwim?!
My dad wants to be called Papa. This is what we called my grandfather when we were little. My mom has not decided but it will probably be between Meme and Mimi. This is what we call the women on her side of the family.
My IL's go by grandpa and grandma.
My parents are Nana and Bumpa (I think this is Irish, my oldest cousin picked it up from Mr.Smith Goes to Washington an old movie)
DH adoptive parents are Grandma and Grandpa
DH's birth mom will most likely be Nana Harris(last name) and her husband Pop Pop
Since all of the them have grandkids we have inherited these names which make it easier. I must admit I am a little miffed because last year when we went to Maine "Nana Harris" had just become a grandmother sort of. Her son had KU his girlfriend who had a 6mth old. But then she was Grandma or Granny. She asked what my mom was called and I told her Nana and now she is Nana. Just sort of bothers me.
Maybe the two aren't linked but I remember saying to DH. I am glad that Kathy is called something different than your mom and my mom. It won't be confusing. Now I think it will be so we will add the last name.
Haaaahaaaa! I was thinking the same thing. I could not allow my child to call my mom Nee Nee for this very reason. LOL.
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when I was growing up I had three sets of grandparents because my mom's parents were divorced. I called them all Gramma and Grampa, though with my dad's side I called them by their last names and on my mom's side I called them by their first names (preceded by Gramma and Grampa, of course.) I actually like that they weren't differentiated just because they weren't blood relatives, because they were relatives. Now the only grandparent I have left is my Grampa's wife, but she'll always be my gramma. She was married to him before I was born and I always thought of her as my gramma and am glad to have her. I don't think I even asked why I had three sets of grandparents ever - I didn't even realize other kids didn't. I'm sure it was explained to me at some point, but unless you actually dislike your parents' choice of spouse, a consideration might be treating them all as equal - they may not be blood, but they're family. Like I said, that all depends on your actual relationship with them.
As for mine, my husband's parents are divorced and remarried but I think we'll have our kids call the grandparents on his side G&G followed by first name, but on my side, since I'm an only child, I think I'll have them use my parents' last name, just so they know my old last name and my heritage.
We have a complicated situation, too. My parents are divorced, and both remarried. DH's parents are divorced, and his mom is remarried. His dad has been in a relationship with the same woman for 7 years, but they aren't married.
So, my mom and stepdad are Mom-Mom and Grandpa Jim.
My dad and stepmom are Pop-Pop and Grandma Mia. (My stepmom wanted to be called "Mama Mia" but DH and I aren't too keen on it.)
DH's mom and stepdad Grammy (already established by DH's sister) and Grandpa Jack.
DH's dad and his girlfriend are Grandpa and Betsy.
I love the name Nana for a grandparent... my grandmother was Nana. In fact, Eliana's middle name, Jane, is after her!
Good luck deciding... it's really hard when there's remarriages and such.
My parents will simply be Grandma and Grandpa. That is what they like and what my neice calls them.
My IL's on the other hand have to be complicated. My FIL is called Pop by his kids so I was thinking Poppop or something. My MIL wants to be called Mama which from what she says is an Irish thing. But I am the Mama not her so I am not a fan of that. It will be a battle but luckily she lives in NY and were in SC so it will be rare that LO see's her so hopefully it will just work itself out. DH wants her to be called Mama cause that's what he called his Grandmother but I just can't let it go. So we shall see.
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