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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope your kids just keep calling them Grandma and Grandpa.[/quote]

ILs will be celebrating their 50th Anniversary later this month.  It will be interesting to hear what the other "older" grandkids call them.    [/quote]

It's totally any adult's prerogative to decide that a nickname, even a longtime "title" like grandma or grandpa, is something they want to change. Maybe they never actually liked being called grandma and grandpa all these years but ended up with those nicknames by default when the grandkids came along and that's what their adult kids told the children to call them. If you get along well with them, why not ask: Hey, we're fine with a change, just wondered -- did you always not like being called grandma? ....Maybe it made them feel older than they really are, or maybe they see that all their friends get called this by grandkids so it's boring. But it's their choice what they prefer.

Maybe the impending 50th anniversary is somewhat behind the desire for a change--? Perhaps they feel they want to start the next half-century with fresh names they actually prefer.

If they tell your kids directly, "Please call us Mimi and Papa," I hope you'd tell your kids to do so. And at the same time, tell the kids that if they slip up and automatically say "grandma and grandpa," that's no big deal, and the elders will understand. But the kids should make an effort to call people what those people want to be called, even if it's a change.[/quote]
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They have every right to determine how they wish to be addressed. Yes, even if they started as something else.[/quote]

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