Anonymous
12/20/2016 20:44
Subject: Grandma and Grandpa changed thier name to Mimi and Papa
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:too cool for school those Mimi's and Papa's and Grammy's and Nan's and Dede's.
it all gets handed down...
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."
I find it hilarious when people think these names are trendy or trying to be cool.
You are absolutely trying to be cool when you suddenly tell people how they should address you and it's some throwback.
How many times in your life do people change their first name? Can only think of selfish examples. That said, who cares that a grandad rent suddenly has an urgent nickname they need to be called. That is much better than the ones who call your young kids by some other name that they personally like better, or is old country.
