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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your father's wife has asked the grandchildren to call her Grandma, your father has asked the grandchildren to call her Grandma Larla, and you think that the person/people whose preferences should be honored are the grandchildren? Why?[/quote]
I do too and I am not OP. I am a mother, stepmother and stepchild. The kids are not using a term that is disrespectful.However, The new wife is asking the kids to use a term that is indicative of a relationship that they have not forged, and never will if she keeps pushing this bulls***. If she does not have enough sense to respect the wishes of the kids, to understand that relationships take time and growth and that the use of the term "grandma" should be organic and not forced...well, then...I don't know what to say except she needs to grow up.[/quote]

+1.  Yes, the grandchildren's preference matters.  I am just so sick of divorced and remarried people expecting everyone else to play "big happy family" at their command.  Respect is earned.

If she really cared about the children she wouldn't want to force them to use a term they find uncomfortable.[/quote]

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