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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad just remarried and my siblings and I are grown with children of our own. [...]  Any advice?[/quote]

Do not force them to call her anything. If they feel like calling her Mrs. Smith, then Mrs. Smith it is.

When my grandma died, my grandpa's new "girlfriend" moved in with him after about a week. She would have LOVED us to call her grandma right that moment.
I went on calling her Mrs. Miller, as I had before. When she was my grandparents' cleaning lady. My younger cousins (who were elementary / middle-school aged when grandma died) eventually started calling her Larla.

My grandpa told me it was inappropriate to call her Mrs. Miller after a few years. Obviously I was to call her grandma Larla. 
All that resulted in was me simply refering to her as "her" or "that woman" and not calling her anything directly to her face.
No, I did not like her much. Also, I was 20 when my grandma died and she was my grandma (the only one I had as my dad's mother died when he was young) and I didn't feel like calling any one else grandma. Especially not someone I had never liked much (her moving in with my grandpa before my grandma was even burried was only the straw that broke the camel's back).[/quote]

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