Is it okay to veto "Mom-mom" for a grandmother name?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s more of a regional thing - Mommom and Poppop are popular in New Jersey/Delaware/PA. Mommom doesn’t actually sound like mom mom but more like mummum. Definitely not confusing with mom!

This is definitely common in rural backcountry Delaware.

Agree, in rural Delaware the usage is MumMum. Each grandmother is a MumMum. You have MumMum Smith and MumMum Miller.

[GabiJohnson]

Wow, what is with some of these grandparents?? There are plenty of variations- gran, nana, granny (surname)... She already has someone to call her mom. Jesus. Her time is over. You're the mom.

[Anonymous]

I'm in MD and my parents are called Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop. NBD.

[Anonymous]

OP, you can subtlely discourage this with your children. Refer to her as something else, another name, consistently. Don't correct them if they don't call her what she wants. I don't really think she gets to decide.

[Anonymous]

People bump the weirdest shit. I don’t get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People bump the weirdest shit. I don’t get it.

+100000

[Anonymous]

I delt with this. Whenever my SIL referred to her mother as mom mom to my babies who were calling me Ma Ma-I corrected her by looking at my babies and saying “grandma” while pointing to grandma. Every single time. She got the hint eventually. As they got older, we changed it to Hungarian grandma. She liked it! My SIL even started signing her cards that way. Stand your ground mamas.

[Anonymous]

My mother uses Mom Mom because that's what her first grandchild decided to call her independently. I really don't care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm in MD and my parents are called Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop. NBD.

Yep, my grandparents were Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop and my dad is now Pop-pop to my son. We are originally from Baltimore, and it’s definitely regional. This is not a big deal and there is zero confusion about parents vs grandparents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only people who I know who use "mom-mom" are backcountry folks. I went to grad school in a very redneck/country backwoods type of area and it was very common.

Veto it. It's awful.

Agree this is a backcountry term.

And this is DCUM. You don't want any part of backcountry. You have to let people know you are classy and cultured by choosing carefully curated grandparent nomenclature.

[Anonymous]

How did you find this old thread and why did you bump it?

[Anonymous]

Mommom is what we call the grandmothers in my family. It's pronounced "Mummum" and I don't think it ever struck anybody as usurping the title "Mom".

[Anonymous]

My mom goes by mom-mom. I don’t mind at all. I thought it was short for mother’s mom though? So would be weird to have that be your grandma name if it’s your son’s child?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom goes by mom-mom. I don’t mind at all. I thought it was short for mother’s mom though? So would be weird to have that be your grandma name if it’s your son’s child?

+1

It’s for mothers of mothers.

[Anonymous]

No, you shouldn’t veto it. It just shows you are insecure. Of course your kid won’t be confused. It might not stick anyway, kids often come up with their own names. But whatever, you don’t get to decide this.