I let them pick whatever they wanted to be called. Why not? That is their choice and now as a young adult, DS uses their first names and all is well.

Growing up, we were the far away out of state grandkids and had the generic Grandpa [last name] and Grandma [last name] for each. Thankfully that did not carry on.

Anonymous wrote:If you have a son, you’re the kind of person who is never going to see him or his family again after he gets married. And you’ll get what you deserve then.

At best, you’ll be relegated to a two-hour gift exchange and dinner the weekend before Christmas, take it or leave it.

bingo.

Yes. I hate it.

Grandmama and Granddaddy.

My DD couldn't pronounce "grandma" or "grannie" or anything with "Gr." My mom, a French teacher, decided on "Meme" (pronounced May-May--I can't make accents over the e's). Easy to say, makes my mom happy. Dad couldn't care less--he's pop-pop. Because it's easy to say.
For free babysitting, I don't care if my kids call them Bonnie and Clyde, as long as the grandparents are happy.

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Anonymous wrote:Every Nona or Nonna I know is barely Italian but definitely from South Jersey or some low brow location.

Hey!! Why is South Jersey getting such a bad rap? I’m proud of my hometown! 😁

My kids do grandmom and grandpop, because that’s what I grew up calling my grandparents.

+1 Mother from Millville, can confirm

She, however. has styled herself "Zsa Zsa" based on her snarky love of the ZZ Gabor drama (husband, amputations, etc)

Mem Mem = grandmother

Pep Pep = grandfather

This is in PA

Anonymous wrote:Every Nona or Nonna I know is barely Italian but definitely from South Jersey or some low brow location.

Hey!! Why is South Jersey getting such a bad rap? I’m proud of my hometown! 😁

My kids do grandmom and grandpop, because that’s what I grew up calling my grandparents.

My MIL insisted on Nana and Poppop, which sounded really stupid to me because these names imply (to me) that the kids have a warm, caring relationship with their grandchildren.

My ILs are ogres, so hearing my teenaged boys call them Nana and Poppop is just ridiculous. Kids call them by their first names when ILs aren’t around.

Anonymous wrote:OP, just for a little perspective, all my kids’ grandparents are dead, and my own Nana was an immigrant who worked as a domestic.

So, having a hard time empathizing with you here.

And some people don’t have hands, but, you are using yours to type this crap.

I think nana is pretty traditional, OP, and I feel like it’s commonly used for mil’s? Like maternal GMA is grandma and mil is nana? This was fairly common growing up (I’m 40).

The cool grandma names are obnoxious, I’m with you there. My mil goes by Gigi and even has a shirt that says something like “Gigi - grandmother but so much cooler.” She’s the most uptight person I’ve ever met. My mother goes by a name appropriated from a culture of which she is not part - but whatever. We call them what they want and hope they love our kids and spend quality time with them.

Anonymous wrote:GiGi pronounced as if she were French. Gets on my last nerve.

My mom is also Gigi, but prounounced GG

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, just for a little perspective, all my kids’ grandparents are dead, and my own Nana was an immigrant who worked as a domestic.

So, having a hard time empathizing with you here.

There's always one of these downer posts on every single venting thread. OP was venting, she was not trying to offend anyone with dead grandparents.

Not the PP to whom you're responding, but that PP was noting the lack of perspective in people like OP who choose to expend even one nanosecond to be irked about this. To then expend more time venting about it to strangers seems as if the irked party has nothing better to do.

That is the whole point of this website. Vent or start threads even if they’re trivial. God, people, you ruin everything by having to complain about what someone wants to talk about.

GiGi pronounced as if she were French. Gets on my last nerve.

My mom, stepmom, and MIL are all called different names, none of which is just grandma. One of them is a name that my niece said when she first started talking and couldn’t say grandma, so it’s baby talk. Cringe. The others are made up versions of grandma because I guess grandma sounds too old and not unique enough. Good grief. I am definitely just going to be “grandma.” I will be old and I don’t need to be unique.

Of course l, it is their choice and I respect it. And I’d never tell my kids that it bugs me.

I grew up with Nana and Pap-Pap (Shout out to Pittsburghers here…I think Pap Pap is uniquely Pittsburgh). Some time during my childhood, Pap Pap became Pap or Pappa, written as Papa.

Long widowed grandma was Nannie. No confusion.

Interesting to note that I’m one of 5 siblings with many cousins on both sides. Learned recently that our grandparent monikers were specific to my family of origin. The cousins (who lived further away and rarely saw the grandparents) called them Grandmother and Grandfather.

I miss my grandparents.