Ridiculous Grandparent Name

Re: Ridiculous Grandparent Name

• Sherbet Lemon member

  March 2012

  I always called both of my grandmothers "Grandma"  one grandfather was "Grandpa" and the other was "Grandpa (first name)."  I will probably refer to both sets of grandparents as Grandma and Grandpa as well, possibly with their first or last names attached until LO comes up with her own name to call them. 

   My mom actually told me her friends were asking her what she was going to be called and she thought it was up to the kid, not up to her anyhow.  MIL wants mommay, which she swears is French.  1) No, i'm pretty sure it isn't.  2) She's not French.  3) It sounds like Fonzie is saying it.  4)  It's too close to Mom for my comfort.  I probably would go along with what she picked for herself if she picked something less crazy, but this one I can't just get behind. Baby girl will hopefully just end up calling her something cute and it'll stick.  This is the first grandkid for everyone, so it's new territory.

  

  

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• ballstar member

  March 2012

  For all those grandmothers who don't want to be called "Grandma," "Grandmother," etc., I wonder if they realize that unless they are in their forties and under or are just one smokin'-hot fountain-of-youth-lookin' woman, anybody who sees them with a child under, say, 15 is going to automatically assume that it's their grandchild, not their child, so who are the nicknames intended to fool?

   
  

   
  

  

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