What do your kids call their Grandmother?

[momrek06]

My parents are Nonnie and Poppie!

In-Laws are Gram and Grampa!

Both parents came up with their names and they fit perfect for each one of them!!!

 

[apirateslifeforme]

I don't have kids yet, but my mother is adamant that she will NOT be called "Grandma" or any variation thereof. She says, "They'll call me Jill. It's my name."

Okay, whatever...

 

[JAA'smom]

In our family both of the grandfathers are called papaw and my mom is called Nana and my MIL is called mamaw. I joke with my mom that she picked nana because usually children will start out saying something like nananananana. This way she could always tell everyone that her grandchildren's first words were Nana.

 

[Blondie]

Both Grandmothers are called "Grandmom."

 

[NMAmy]

DD calls my mom Grandma and my ex MIL insisted that she was too young to be a grandmother so dd calls her Mary. DD has younger stepsisters that call that grandmother Nana but dd still calls her Mary.

My grandmothers were Gram and Nana. My sister's grandkids call her Grammie. I like that--but DSis says I should have my future grandkids call me Mimi. That's what little kids (including myself) tend to say for Amy. Hey, I'm used to the name!

 

[Mom2Ashli]

Since our little guy will be arriving home soon, the great debate on what to call his Grandmother has started. My neices and nephews call my Mom "Granny" so there is no decision there. This will be my DMil's first grandchild. She has come down to "NawNee" or "MeMe". Both seem a little different to me, but if that is what she wants--it's ok with us.
Any one heard of NawNee or have an unusual name for the Grandmother?

DD calls my Mom Meme.

 

[spazzyjazzy]

My son calls my mom nana and his dad's mom grandma.

 

[Robinrs]

My Mom and my sister lived next door to each other so shared grand and great grands. My sister's grands called her MeMaw and called their great grandmother Grandma.

 

[VirtuallyMe]

Ok...

My parents are known as: Mamie and Papere (that is a long a in mamie and short a in papere)

My inlaws are: MiMi and Granddaddy

Both sets of parents chose what to be called when the respective first grand kids were born- at the time my MIL didn't want grandma or mawmaw or anything because she thought she was too young for that and well my mom already had a neat grandmother name- now she tried to get her 7 grandkids to change what they call her and I laughed at her and told her the name is 18 years in place give it up you are stuck with it.

My parents go by these names to friends of my nieces and nephews and my kids- very funny to see a bunch of college frat guys yell, "Hey Mamie" when my nephew is with her lol

Now for the most part it is the oldest child who decides and even though the grandparent may choose a name it may be changed.
My mother's parents were known by us as: MommaNell and PawPawDaddyBill- for my grandmother my oldest sister put what mom and dad called her together- for my grandfather- my oldest sister originally called him Pawpawbill but my next sister added the daddy part and it stuck for the rest of us...

I had a MaMa (pronounced MawMaw) and a PaPa (again Paw Paw) which were my dad's parents
My greatgrandparents (maternal grandmother's parents) were Ma-Ware and Pa-Ware with the names pronounced maw and paw

Friends of parents are:
Moppy and Pop-pop
Memo and Grandpa
BigTroub and Butch (nicknames were already there)
Granny and Poppy
Mere and Pere

Around here though people named Nanny or Nanan or Nanna or Nan are usually Godparents- my kids all call once sister Nanny because my oldest neice had two aunt Dana's and so that was how she was differentiated. And my husband and his brother's and our kids all call my MIL's sister Nanan and she is only Godmother to my oldest BIL. Her kids and grandkids call my MIL Nan. I named my niece and nephew (kids of my sister who goes as Nanny) the Godparents for my youngest child and they call themselves Nanny-Lil and Paran (spelling that wrong)...

 

[mickeyboat]

My late MIL was Grammie to her other grands, and Googie to my girls. I have no idea where Hannah go that, and Mabel hated it, but it stuck, and we all grew to love it. When she dies, the floral display from the grandchildren read Loving Grammie, Loving Googie. FIL is called Papa - which came from the first grandchild.

My mom is called Grandma and dad is Grandpa.

I hear lots of different ways kids refer to their grandparents!

Denae

 

[thewishfire]

I don't have kids, but personally one set of Grandparents are Grandma Leah and Grandpa Greg. The other set is Mema and Papa... but 'Papa' isn't my biological Grandfather, him I've called Barney since I was little! Of course because to me his hair used to have a purplish tint and it was just a nickname that stuck. Before that he was Grandpa Half-baldy!!

 

[DisneyWorldWisher]

I call my grandmother on my mothers side 'Nana' and my grandfather on my mothers side 'Papa'. I call my great grandmother on my mothers side 'Granma' and I just call my other grandparents 'Grandma and Grandpa'.

 

[puffkin]

I despise "cutesy" names for grandparents. I don't know why....I guess because I hate baby talk in general.

My grandparents were Grandma and Grandpa and Grandmom and Grandpop.
My parents call themselves grandmom and grandpop to my son. He is too little to speak yet, but he will be encouraged to do the best he can with their names until he can say it properly.

The issue is on my DH's side. There are two nieces already and they both call the grandparents Nana and Pop Pop. I hate both names and have yet to refer to them by those names in front of my son. I think we will try to just keep it grandmom and grandpop on both sides for simplicity....hopefully our son will stick to that and not use Nana and Pop pop.

(oh, and my husband referred to both sets of his grandparents as Mom mom and Pop, which I also don't like).

 

[Bob Slydell]

I despise "cutesy" names for grandparents. I don't know why....I guess because I hate baby talk in general.

My grandparents were Grandma and Grandpa and Grandmom and Grandpop.
My parents call themselves grandmom and grandpop to my son. He is too little to speak yet, but he will be encouraged to do the best he can with their names until he can say it properly.

The issue is on my DH's side. There are two nieces already and they both call the grandparents Nana and Pop Pop. I hate both names and have yet to refer to them by those names in front of my son. I think we will try to just keep it grandmom and grandpop on both sides for simplicity....hopefully our son will stick to that and not use Nana and Pop pop.

(oh, and my husband referred to both sets of his grandparents as Mom mom and Pop, which I also don't like).

You do realize that a lot of those names, like Nana and Papa, etc. are traditional titles for grandparents in other cultures, not just "cutesy" names, right?

 

[ntburns22]

My parents are Ama and Papa
MIL and SFIL Ama and John
FIL and SMIL who is he again and who's that lady asking me to call her Grandma. My kids see them like maybe once a year their choice.

DH's grandma the kids just call her Grandma

 

[Evil Queen]

My kids just call my Mom "Grandma", when we are home.

But, when we go to visit my Mom's house, we call her "Maga". When my oldest neice was born she couldn't say Grandma, but would say Maga. It stuck. Well, that neice has a daughter, and to keep the confusion down-since my Mom is her Great Grandma-we still just call her Maga when we are there.

My sister (who IS the Grandmother of this little girl) she's Grandma.

My kid's call their paternal Grandmother's "Grandma (insert last name)".

My grandmother's were Nana and Granny.

 

[luvmy2sams]

My parents decided to let the kids call them whatever they came up with, which is the same thing I did with my grandparents. DD7 has always called my mom "Grandma", but when DS3 started talking he called her "moo ma". Moo ma has now become more like "mo ma". Drives my mom crazy! My dad has always been "papa".

My grandparents on my mom's side were "Nana" and "Dandy".

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

You do realize that a lot of those names, like Nana and Papa, etc. are traditional titles for grandparents in other cultures, not just "cutesy" names, right?

Exactly. We always called my great-grandmother "Nana," which is Italian (she was from Italy).

 

[puffkin]

You do realize that a lot of those names, like Nana and Papa, etc. are traditional titles for grandparents in other cultures, not just "cutesy" names, right?

Yes, I know a lot of greek and italians that use yia-yia and Nonni (not sure of spelling) which I don't mind at all. I actually find it refreshing.

I am more against allowing children to continue speaking baby talk long past their toddler years, and I think grandparent names are one of those areas it is so accepted. I guess I feel kind of passionate about it because my one niece has severe speech issues that no one seemed to notice because they thought it was so "cute". Now she is paying the price in school and is faced with years of speech therapy and her parents STILL don't get it.

And my DH's family is Polish but they don't use the Polish names (which I could live with)

 

[palmtreegirl]

In my family we've used Mom Mom and Pop Pop (sounds like mum mum and pup pup) for at least 3 generations back.