What do your kids call their Grandmother?

[Not so Dumbo]

My youngest DS use to say Grandma and Big Grandma in order to distinguish the two.

That's cute. I like that.

My kids call my mom - grandma, my mom-inlaw- nana, and my stepmom- grandma Barb (not because she's stepmom. They call my dad grandpa Jer too)

 

[babytrees]

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

Yeah!!! More Ama's!!

We have:

Ama
Meemaw
Grandma Mary Ellen
Old Grandma
Grandmother
Grandma (her last name)
Grandma Hoo Hoo

Grandpa's other than one....are Grandpa and their first name.

 

[Redbudlover]

As the grandmother in question..... my son's in-laws are called Gramma and grandpa and I am called Amah and my DH Poppie... I love Amah. (And that is what I tell my little GD - "say, 'I love Amah!'"

 

[mickeyboat]

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)

I don't know, I think there is a difference between using baby talk, and using an endearing nick name given to someone by a child. My 7 year old uses baby talk a lot more than she should, and I correct her all the time, but I don't think calling her grandmother Googie is the cause of that issue.

Denae

 

[EthansMom]

My nephew called MIL Dodo (pronounced "doo-doo") before my first child was born. I didn't care for that for obvious reasons, so DS started out calling MIL "Grandma". Now that we live in the same area as the in-laws, the kids call MIL "Grandma Dodo". StepFIL is "Papa Ron".

FIL is "Pop-pop". StepMIL is "Nana".

My Mom is "Grandma Lorna". My Stepdad is "Grampa Mick".

My Dad is "Grampa Mark". My Stepmom is "Grandma Diana".

Our kids have 8 grandparents due to divorce and remarriage.

 

[gris gris]

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.

Uh oh - I'm 32 and call my mom Mimi and my dad Bapa. LOL DD named them when she was about 2 and now everyone in our family refers to my parents as Mimi & Bapa! And my grandfather (great grandfather to DD) named himself Gigi (yes, we know it's a girly name)!!

DH's parents are plain old grandma & grandpa but we love them anyhow

OP I think you should just wait until your child comes up with a name. I have DD on video the first time she said Bapa

 

[TruBlu]

Ours are Gran, MeMa, and PawPaw. We don't really care what they call them. We are just thankful to have them!

We also talk a lot about my dad.... Their "PawPaw in Heaven"....

 

[jx3smom]

My boys called my mom, MomMom. My DS is the oldest grandchild so he shortened Granmom to MomMom. My exMIL wanted to be Grandmother so that is what she was. My MIL is YaYa and I have no idea why. That is what she wanted and was that when my DS#3 was born.

 

[puffkin]

I don't know, I think there is a difference between using baby talk, and using an endearing nick name given to someone by a child. My 7 year old uses baby talk a lot more than she should, and I correct her all the time, but I don't think calling her grandmother Googie is the cause of that issue.

Denae

I too don't think just grandparents names are the cause of speech problems, but I think it is part of the larger problem in a lot of kids, especially when the parents don't encourage their kids to speak properly.

As for the PP that said their son uses Grandmom and Big Grandmom....my cousin's son does that too, except he says Old Grandmom for his great grandmother (my grandmother)

 

[paintnolish]

My parents are Gaga and Papa. I have heard other grandma's called Gaga! H's are Grandma and Grandpa. Great Grandparents are GGMa and GGPa. I used to call mymom's mother Ocky. Don't know why!

 

[JMCDisneyBound]

My parent's are Grandmommy and Grandpaps
His parent's are Mimi and Papa
His biological mom is Granny Lynn (Linda)

 

[antmaril]

My mother is deceased. My DS calls his grandmother Oma (Dutch).

 

[ozarkmom]

Grandma & Grandpa if they need to distinguish which one they add their first name.

 

[suezpqt]

Well my daughter (6) has 3 grandmothers - Nonn (Italian for Grandmother)i, Me(daughter shortened Grammie) and MeMy(my MIL's creation). Actually it makes it much easier to know what grandmother she is talking about.

 

[MariDisney]

My DD has 3 sets of grandparents (because I'm remarried) we have Nana and Poppie, Grandmom and Grandpop, and Grammy and Grampa.

 

[Keli]

My Mom is called 'grandma' by all her grandchildren. My MIL has a variety of names, lol. My dd calls her 'grandma' too, as do most of the other grandchildren but there are a couple that call her MaMaw and a couple that used to call her Nana but I think they switched to grandma as they got older.

 

[amy4bruce]

My six-year old daughter calls DW's parents Grandma and Grandpa Lou. Before their deaths, my parents were Grandma Fran and Grandpa Sid. This, by the way, was at the request of my mother, who didn't like the Grandma with our last name.

Now, I grew up around my nephews, sons of my idiot brother and his toxic wife. They called my parents Mom and Dad, since they grew up in their house, and heard my IB and his TW call them that. (Please don't ask about all of them living together. Bad situation. Very, very bad.) Their maternal grandfather was Grandpa Bill. He was separated (never divorced, despite the presence of a live-in girl friend) from an amazingly evil woman who refused to admit she had grandchildren. She was too young. Her daughter had children, but they were not grandchildren. They had to refer to her as Granda, a name she made up. By the time the kids were teenagers, they had stopped talking to her, and called her nothing.

My wife's neice and nephew call their grandfather Grandpa Lou, but their grandmother is Po. I have no idea why.

 

[tpayne]

My latest grandchild who is now amazing and four, began calling me "Grand Le Ma" when she started talking. No one knows where she got that. I loved it! Guess it was french for "Big Mama" . But then one day, she just stopped. It broke my heart. She is very proper and now it's just..Grandmother

 

[Blueeyes101817]

i call my one set of grandparents grandma and grandpa
the other is babci and pop

 

[ceiligh1]

My son has three grandmothers and grandfathers.
For my inlaws and step inlaws (MIL, FIL, StepMIL and StepFIL) it is grandma or grandpa (insert first name) For my mom it is grammy and for my Dad it is Phil (Phil is not his name his name is greg but my father decided he wanted to be called Phil. We have no idea why he chose that name specificly We think that this way he can teach my son things and when he tells people who told him to do this he can say Phil and those outside the family wont know it is him.)