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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think SIL is cray for messing actively wanting her kid to mess up an existing tradition.[/quote]

Agree but I wouldn't get involved in it.  Really, if the kids hang out with the cousins and grandparents regularly they will likely start to use the same names but I'd let it go.  If they don't see them very often, I don't see how it matters.

In my family, my parents' "chose" their names (Nana and Pop Pop) and everyone taught those to the kids.  DH's brother's kids actually called his parents by their first names, which we think is weird so we went with Grandma and Grandad since they said they didn't care when we asked them (we don't see them often and they were never close with our kids, and have now passed away)[/quote]

LOL, writing this out I now realize *I* am the SIL who wanted my kid to call the grandparents something different than what the older grandkids do.  But really, I'm not teaching my toddler to call "grandma" and "grandpa", Shirley and Howard!  That's just weird.  It was never an issue that we used different names.  In part I'm sure because we saw them only a few weekends a year and the other grandkids were 12+ years older than my kids.[/quote]

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