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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First names.  Now that we have a grandchild, that might change to Grandma/Grandpa.[/quote]

Why?  They didn’t become your grandparents when you had a child.  When talking to your child you would say “we’re going to grandma's”  but when you speak to them directly you should still use their names.  It would be weird for you to see your MIL and say Hi Grandma![/quote]

NP. I would have thought this, too, before I had kids. But the reality is, when you see your MIL and are greeting her, your kids are usually standing right there with you! So “Hi Grandma!” ends up feeling right. Most of my interactions with my ILs and most of my husband’s interactions with my parents (his ILs) currently happen with or in the presence of our children (ages 6, 4, and 1).

We both ostensibly call them by their first names, and do on the rare cases we’re together without the kids, but the reality is most of the time we’re using their grandparent names. Perhaps that will change once the kids are older and aren’t so immediately under foot all the time! [/quote]

I call my in laws first names (and my husband does this with my parents as well) but often it’s Grandpa, etc. because the kids are around.  Some people do this and some people don’t.  It’s the same instinct that makes some people call their spouse Mom or Dad around small children.[/quote]

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