Since we're talking grandparents...

Re: Since we're talking grandparents...

• Mizsoccer83 member

  June 2012

  I do not mean this question to be snarky whatsoever, but I am genuinely curious as to your thought process on what age has to do with terminology. I guess I am bothered by this (personally), as my MIL claims she is too young to be called Grandma (she is 50, almost 51) and my mom just turned 49 and cannot wait to be called Grandma. I took offense to my MIL not wanting to be called Grandma (she wants to be called "G-Ma") as I felt like she thought she was too good to be called something that is an earned title, to me. Maybe I am sensitive and I do come from a very close family and understand everyone is different, so maybe you can make me feel a little better about why people think this way!?

  And to answer your question, I have friends who's LO's call their parents NaNa, Grammie, etc (regardless of the age of their parents)...Barbie though...whoa.

  

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• SGC29 member

  June 2012

  My mom insisted that DD not call her "grandma or grandmother", she insists on being called "Gigi". So, DD calls her Gigi. I still refer to her as grandmother or grandma though, I am not a fan of nicknames.

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• dufferoo member

  June 2012

  My mom's grandma moniker is Kiki because her first name starts with a K. I think she is secretly living out some stripper dream of her 20s, but we go with it anyways

  If she doesn't have a preference, though, I think if you just call your mom "grandma" all the time, eventually your LO will come up with his/her own special name for her, especially when he's little and can't quite pronounce "grandma." I know we always called my grandma "Bop-Jean" because when my brother was little he couldn't say grandma but he was great at saying "Bop"!

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• ks3pink member

  June 2012

  DH's mom is 47 and our DD is 6.  Do the math there.  My mom is 49.  My mom is nana and MIL is grandma, my dad is pa and FIL is Pa "name".  MIL has never been upset at DD calling her grandma and my mom quickly got used to nana

  

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• fastcarsandfreedom3319 member

  June 2012

  jociejones:

  If she doesn't have a preference, though, I think if you just call your mom "grandma" all the time, eventually your LO will come up with his/her own special name for her, especially when he's little and can't quite pronounce "grandma." I know we always called my grandma "Bop-Jean" because when my brother was little he couldn't say grandma but he was great at saying "Bop"!

  This exactly!  That's the way my parents did it with me, I was the first grandchild and my grandmother is Mema and my grandfather was Papa because that's all I could say.  I think this is the sweetest way to do it and it has real meaning.
  

  
  
  

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• bigbootyjudi member

  June 2012

  Mizsoccer83:

  I do not mean this question to be snarky whatsoever, but I am genuinely curious as to your thought process on what age has to do with terminology. I guess I am bothered by this (personally), as my MIL claims she is too young to be called Grandma (she is 50, almost 51) and my mom just turned 49 and cannot wait to be called Grandma. I took offense to my MIL not wanting to be called Grandma (she wants to be called "G-Ma") as I felt like she thought she was too good to be called something that is an earned title, to me. Maybe I am sensitive and I do come from a very close family and understand everyone is different, so maybe you can make me feel a little better about why people think this way!?

  And to answer your question, I have friends who's LO's call their parents NaNa, Grammie, etc (regardless of the age of their parents)...Barbie though...whoa.

  It's not really my preference, but hers not to be called Grandma. I didn't really mind because we didn't call any of my grandma's Grandma except for one (and I have five). I think we will just see what he calls her. Her name starts with a W, so WiWi won't work...lol! Especially since he's a boy, so I'm sure that'll be a name for something else completely. I think we will just see what he comes up with and call her Grandma until then
  

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• Mizsoccer83 member

  June 2012

  anbeck4:

  Mizsoccer83:

  I do not mean this question to be snarky whatsoever, but I am genuinely curious as to your thought process on what age has to do with terminology. I guess I am bothered by this (personally), as my MIL claims she is too young to be called Grandma (she is 50, almost 51) and my mom just turned 49 and cannot wait to be called Grandma. I took offense to my MIL not wanting to be called Grandma (she wants to be called "G-Ma") as I felt like she thought she was too good to be called something that is an earned title, to me. Maybe I am sensitive and I do come from a very close family and understand everyone is different, so maybe you can make me feel a little better about why people think this way!?

  And to answer your question, I have friends who's LO's call their parents NaNa, Grammie, etc (regardless of the age of their parents)...Barbie though...whoa.

  It's not really my preference, but hers not to be called Grandma. I didn't really mind because we didn't call any of my grandma's Grandma except for one (and I have five). I think we will just see what he calls her. Her name starts with a W, so WiWi won't work...lol! Especially since he's a boy, so I'm sure that'll be a name for something else completely. I think we will just see what he comes up with and call her Grandma until then
  

  Im so glad you didnt take offense to what I wrote-I know sometimes written messages can come across as mean/snarky and that wasnt my intention. I think a lot of the feelings I have regarding the question I posed harbor with some negative feelings I have with my IL's anyway. But yeah-I think that just calling them grandma until your LO comes up with a name is a great idea!

  

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