I have the weirdest thoughts sometimes...

[bigirl_inwv]

I was sitting in the mall today, people-watching as usual. I saw an older man with a baby, which I assumed was his grandson. It made me think about my future. I imagined seeing my father with my kids and how cute it would be. Then I wondered, what are his parents going to teach him to call his grandparents? What will I tell my kids to call their grandparents? The set of grandparents I was closest to I called Momaw and Popaw. The other set was just grandma and grandpa. What did you call your grandparents when you were a kid?

[darkeyes]

I was sitting in the mall today, people-watching as usual. I saw an older man with a baby, which I assumed was his grandson. It made me think about my future. I imagined seeing my father with my kids and how cute it would be. Then I wondered, what are his parents going to teach him to call his grandparents? What will I tell my kids to call their grandparents? The set of grandparents I was closest to I called Momaw and Popaw. The other set was just grandma and grandpa. What did you call your grandparents when you were a kid?

Gagga, Gamma, Ganda an Witchie....show wot me thought of her....

[ambi53mm]

My grandfathers died when I was very young within a short time of one another but were always referred to as "You're grandfather". I had a very estranged relationship with my paternal grandmother due to a divorce and some bitter feelings between my parents but would refer to her as grandmother. My maternal grandmother was a very big part of my life however and to credit became the grandmother to many of my friends as well. She was known to everyone as "Gram" young and old alike. A name we called her as young children that stuck for the duration of her life.
Interesting question LOL …the one I ponder now is what I’ll be called by my first grandchild born just 5 weeks ago…LOL time to come up with some new slang cause I sure don’t feel like Gramps, Grandpa, Grandad, Grandfather or Pops or any of the traditional terms perhaps something along the line of “ Grandude or ”The Grandster”.
No matter I’ll adapt..it’s just tough when I still haven’t figured out yet what I want to do when I grow up.

Ambi :)

[arana]

My fathers parents were always grandma and grandpa. I never knew my mothers family but they were referred to as Obasan and Ojisan.

How do you know it was the child's grandfather. Now a days it could have been his father.

[holybane]

On my mom's side. Grandmother and Grandpa (don't know how that happened), on my bio-dad's side Nanny (never knew my grandfather on that side), on my dad's side, Grandma and Granddaddy Dave or just Dave (Dave is actually my step-step-grandad). Weird.

[bigirl_inwv]

How do you know it was the child's grandfather. Now a days it could have been his father.


It very well could have been. Like I said, I just assumed.

[meteast chick]

My mom's parents died when she was a child, so obviously well well before I was born, so the only set of grandparents I had were just called Grandpa and Grandma. As I got older, my parents divorced and remarried, then I had stepfamily whom I just called by their first names. My Grandpa died in 1997, and my Grandma, she's 89 and to this day sends my kids, her great-grandkids, handwritten letters that say 'from your Grandma on the farm'. My God I love that woman...

luv and kisses,
xoxoxoxoxoxo
meteast

[LoveLion]

I dont think you need to worry about what to tell your kids to call them. I think they will come up with that on their own :)

[Lisa (va)]

I called both grandparents the same, grandma and grandpa; call my mother mom, my father pop and father n law pops. No one told me what I had to call them so I think Lion is correct children will decide on their own.

Lisa

hugs n kisses

[coyotedude]

My mom's parents - with whom I was the closest - were just Grandma and Grandpa. The rest were Grandma + last name or Grandpa + last name.

Now, for my own kids.... my mom is divorced and my mother-in-law is widowed. So mostly we concentrate on the grandmothers. My mother-in-law is just "Grandma", while my mother is "Kiya" (pronounced "kai -ya"), which is the local Indian word for grandmother. Nice and convenient (even if everyone looks at us funny when the kids talk about their kiya).

(Since our kids were originally from China, we had thought about using "nainai" and "waipo" for the grandmas. But one of them is for the father's mother, the other is for the mother's mother, and we kept getting confused which was which! So we settled for languages we were a little more familiar with....)

Peace

[bearisbare]

I thought of my mom's mother as Grandma and her dad as Grandpa, as well as the second husband that my Grandma had. To me, my dad's mom was Nana. I was estranged from my dad's father.

[Michael623]

I am a grandfather of 4 wonderful children, 2 from my daughter of a previous marriage and 2 from my wife's daughter from a previous marriage. The names our grandbabies call us were pretty much choosen by us or by our children. It can get complicated for the children when you have the potential for 8 grandparents. Our situation is somewhat simplified in that both our son-in-laws parents are either deceased or weren't ever a part of their life. My daughter "assigned" names to us which are "Grandapa Mike" and "Grandma Rhonda". Our other daughter left it up to us and we wanted to be called grandpa and grandma. The names started from the beginning and come into play in situation when the children start talking. I would think for a child to call his grandparents whatever "they" chose would mean they were older, wouldn't it. And how did they come up with names all by themselves. That just doesn't register with me.

Sharing grandfather status with my ex-wife's husband brings up another factor with names. Jealousy! Luckily all of us have not had that enter into it and we ALL give them love. If my grandchildren wish to call be something different when they get older that is fine with me, within reason, LOL.

[Fire Lotus]

On my mother's side: Both grandparents died when I was very young and I had met them only once. They were referred to as grandma and/or grandpa ______(insert last name here).

On my father's side: We all called my grandmother ma mere. She was french and didn't like being called a grandmother. Grand father was grandpa Spence.

My son calls my mother nana. This is what he came up with on his own. He is now almost 21 and still calls her that.

[mannysg]

My grandparents were "Grandma" and "Pap-Pap". My kids call my parents the same thing. My grandson & granddaughter call me "Pappy" and my wife "Grammy".

[Chaia]

I called my grandparents Granny and Grandad. My children call my folks Grammie and Grandad and my husband's folks Nana and Pappy. It makes things easy when they are all called something different.

[onewhocares]

What a great thread. I have been sitting here reading and it was like walking down memory lane. Thinking about people whom I have not thought about for a while. My mom's parents, who died when I was young were Nanny and Duke (never knew how he got his name, he was so far from a John Wayne kind of guy). My fathers parents were Grandpa and Grammy. I am not worried about what I will be called...I will just love them.

Belle

[eddy10]

Dad's parents died when I was too young.

Mom's parents were Busha and Jajaj ( they were Polish ... spelling is not correct).

My Grandson calls us Nana and Papa. I think my wife came up with those.

[bigregory]

with wars and fire i never had the option, all were dead before i was born..
with no grandfathers my kids call there grandmas nana and grandma
I think if i did have a grandfather i would call him Sir.

[mistymockingbird]

Mom's side-Grandma and Grandpa Deen (last name)
Dad's side-Grandma Tommye and Grandpa JD (first names)

Now that my folks are grandparents, my bros kids call them Grandma and Papa Dave. Papa Dave is what my great grandfather on my dad's side was called. Full circle I guess.

[swag85]

my great grandparents i call gramma and G.G. other great grandparents i call nana and pops, and my grandparents i call nan, and gramps. thats what i want to be called, gramps.

[Mrs. Taz]

just called em grandma and grandpa, although when i was little im not sure how it actually came out, probably like its supposed to cause I was a very good talker at the age of 3. :)

[ladytmarie]

I only had a relationship with my maternal grand parents. I call my grandmother "Nannie" and my grand father (R.I.P) "Pa-Pa"