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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]too cool for school those Mimi's and Papa's and Grammy's and Nan's and Dede's.

it all gets handed down...[/quote]

In my family there is a reason why there are different names for grandparents: When my oldest was born (20 years ago), I still had 2 grandmothers (Nana and Grandma) and one grandfather (Grandpa) alive and well. So my mother decide to go by Grammy and my father decided he would be "Pa," which is what he called his own grandfather when he was a child (in the 1940s). (Actually, everyone called my great-grandfather "Pa," both his children and his grandchildren.) My DC1 couldn't say "Grammy" and instead pronounced it "Mimi." That name stuck and now all my mother's grandchildren call her that. (This is also how my BF's kids started calling their grandmother "MeMaw"--that's how the oldest grandchild (now 28) pronounced "grandma.")

FTR, I called one of my grandmother's "Nana." I grew up in New England and knew a lot of kids in the 60s and 70s who called their grandparents "Nana" and "Papa."

[b]I find it hilarious when people think these names are trendy or trying to be cool[/b].[/quote]

I agree that grandparents have been called things like Nana and Papa and Mimi and Opa and whatnot forever.  (I'm married to a guy whose family is from Maine, and the grandmother in that family has always been Nana.  My kid has a grandma and a grandpa and a nana and a papa.)  I just think it's silly to try to change the name a decade in.  I feel like, you get to decide when the first grandchild is born (although that grandchild may bestow a name on you) and that's it.  [/quote]

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