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[quote=Anonymous]I agree it's up to her to decide what the grandkids call her, and you don't really get a vote.

But I do want to express some empathy, OP, because my mom also selected an incredibly stupid name for herself. It's fine, my kid calls her that and we reinforce it -- you use the name someone provides you, it's really important to reinforce that for kids. But privately I cringe every time I hear it or say it. Part of the problem is that it's a name that is actively kind of hard to say, plus it somehow manages to be both cutesy and pretentious at the same time. My mom is absolutely being ridiculous with it, and I honestly think she regrets picking it on some level, but now it's too late because she's got half a dozen grand kids who have been using it for years.

I think it's fine to vent privately (on here or two your husband) that the name is dumb. It probably is. But yeah, sometimes people pick dumb names for themselves and you just have to go with it because it's not up to you.[/quote]

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