FIL Wants To Be Called Papa

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't picture a modern-day child calling their immediate father "Papa" past age 3, when they get to preschool and the other kids make fun of them for not using "Dad".

I can, however, picture LOTS of grandfather "Papa"s. Sounds like a great grandpa name.

So for three years you have two Papas??

[Anonymous]

I call my father and FIL "Papa" and my mother and MIL "Mummy". My DH does the same.

My kids call me "Mom" or "Mumma". They call DH "Dad" or "Daddy".

I do not think there is any confusion in anyone's mind about how we all are related.

[Anonymous]

My kids call paternal Grandpa Papa 'insert last name" and I don't have a problem with it. But, English is not my first language so I never though much about it. It started with older cousins in Colorado. DH didn't think anything of it, I didn't even know until now that in some parts of US father is called papa, I knew in France, but I am not French.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow OP this is not the bridge you want to die on. It's what ever the grandparents want to be called.

Or a hill. A friend's father insisted on this. His name is Jon. I almost spit out my beer I laughed so hard. Papa Jon. You're associating yourself with allegedly second rate pizza.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids call paternal Grandpa Papa 'insert last name" and I don't have a problem with it. But, English is not my first language so I never though much about it. It started with older cousins in Colorado. DH didn't think anything of it, I didn't even know until now that in some parts of US father is called papa, I knew in France, but I am not French.

Really, in no parts of the US do people.call their dads papa.

It is a grandpa name in this country.

Unless apparently you are a hipster and need a grandpa "dad" name to go with your Ozark hillbilly grandpa style hipster beard.

[Anonymous]

Papa is Dad in French. Not appropriate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Papa is Dad in French. Not appropriate.

Pssst. Op is not in France.

In the US, no one calls.their dads papa.

Papa is Grandpa in American. Totally appropriate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Papa is Dad in French. Not appropriate.

First of all, different pronunciation.

And second of all, in French, the word for fart is "pet." Should we stop having dogs and cats now too?

[Anonymous]

I don't know why grandpa is unacceptable for many older men, who feel the need to come up with some other name for themselves. I think the variants started for multi-generational families, and kids giving pet names but now no one wants to be just grandpa. This includes my own FIL who calls himself Papa, but it did not get traction and everyone still calls him grandpa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why grandpa is unacceptable for many older men, who feel the need to come up with some other name for themselves. I think the variants started for multi-generational families, and kids giving pet names but now no one wants to be just grandpa. This includes my own FIL who calls himself Papa, but it did not get traction and everyone still calls him grandpa.

My family has used the name "Papa" for four generations now to refer to our grandfathers. My father did not suddenly invent it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Papa is Dad in French. Not appropriate.

We get it, you went to French immersion classes when you were a young thing in Chevy Chase and now deem all things acceptable or unacceptable based on what the French would do. That has nothing to do with those of us that are NOT French. #Murica

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why grandpa is unacceptable for many older men, who feel the need to come up with some other name for themselves. I think the variants started for multi-generational families, and kids giving pet names but now no one wants to be just grandpa. This includes my own FIL who calls himself Papa, but it did not get traction and everyone still calls him grandpa.

My family has used the name "Papa" for four generations now to refer to our grandfathers. My father did not suddenly invent it.

Same here. My husband's extended family all referred to their grandparents as Nana and Papa. That's what my MIL called her grandparents, that's what my husband called his grandparents, and that's what my daughter calls my ILs.

There are lots of regional and cultural variants of names for grandparents. This is not a new thing.

[Anonymous]

Is this your only complain with FIL?

Get over it!

[Anonymous]

OP hasn't returned yet. Trolling accomplished?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP hasn't returned yet. Trolling accomplished?

OP is the Ron Popeil of DCUM trolls and we're the Ronco 5000 - Set it and forget it!