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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am the mother of 3 girls. I am Mom-mom to my grands. I am their Mom’s Mom. My daughter gave me the name for that reason.

Whyyyy did you resurrect this old thread????

She had to go back two years to find something and get worked up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My MIL is under the impression that a child can't have two "Grandmas." She has suggested that she would like to be called "Mom-mom." I've never heard of this as a grandmother name - I had two grandmas myself. To me, it would be really confusing to a little kid. Mama/mommy and Mom-mom are so similar.

Am I wrong to want to be the only one with Mom in the beginning of the title for my kids?

Mama and mom-mom are too close. Tell her you’ll support any other name she picks. Granny, nana, bubbie, ya-ya, grams, whatever weird name she wants, but it needs to not be easily confused with mama.

[Anonymous]

Yuck. It’s southern and vaguely hillbilly — one small step up from “MeeMaw.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yuck. It’s southern and vaguely hillbilly — one small step up from “MeeMaw.”

My cousins always called their grandmother MawMaw and I hated it until my daughter's dad's mom wanted to be called MomMom. I let my daughter call her whatever she wants but you're not getting a MomMom out of me. I call her MawMaw instead. You were not a great mom to your son, you don't deserve to get the title twice over.

[Anonymous]

In lower Delaware (Sussex County) the grandmothers are called Mom-Mom Smith and Mom-Mom Jones.

Mom-Mom is pronounced kind of fast.

It sounds almost like MumMum pronounced fast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op back. A lot of projecting going on in this thread. I'm sorry some of you have strained relationships with your family members. We spoke to MIL last night and she's going with Grammy. No hard feelings.

I'm not insecure. Just want to be the only Mom. DH will be the only Dad. Don't think that's much to ask for.

Yeah, grandfathers aren’t going around wanting to be DadDad. It’s stupid. Glad you found an alternative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes! Mine wanted Mee-maw like on the Big bang theory and I was like NO!

Fine for the show, not for her.

WTH? Why not. My kids already know I will not be called Grandma. I'm going to use what my Mom's Mom was called: Sweets!

Oh, yuck.

You’re old. You’re a grandma. Make peace with it.

[Anonymous]

Yikes. This lady is going to be a problem.

Definitely give her a different name.

[Anonymous]

Am I the only one where the kid picked the name?

[Anonymous]

My mother goes by "Mom mom" because that's what the first grandchild called her. My kids were never confused, nbd.

[Anonymous]

OP sounds insecure and controlling. In my mother tongue, the word for maternal grandmother is literally mom mom.

Also, OP’s kid is 8 now. Hopefully she has learned to let go a little by now.

[Anonymous]

Both my mom and mother in law wanted to be called grandma. That’s what we called them until the first kid could talk. Then, guess what? The kid made up the name. One was mema, which that grandmas didn’t want to be called but that’s what the kid called her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes! Mine wanted Mee-maw like on the Big bang theory and I was like NO!

Fine for the show, not for her.

WTH? Why not. My kids already know I will not be called Grandma. I'm going to use what my Mom's Mom was called: Sweets!

Oh, yuck.

You’re old. You’re a grandma. Make peace with it.

I agree. It's self centered attention seeking behavior. Just be grandma and stop being ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

What kind of hillbilly town did folks calling their grandparents MomMom and PopPop originate from?

[Anonymous]

Some of you people are ridiculous. Let grandma pick the nickname she wants to go by. I've heard Mom-mom before. The last time I heard it it was given by a little toddler who was told that the grandma was "Mom's mom" and she just started calling her Mom-mom. It's perfectly fine. There will not be a confusion over who is the mother and who is the grandmother.