[~my2beauties~]

...be calling their grandparents (when they start talking obviously )? I know grandparents sometimes like to be called different names other than just grandma or grandpa.

Unless she makes up her own little name for them, my parents will probably just be "grandma" and "grandpa" to her - that's what my nieces call them now.

Jon's dad will be "yaya" (pronounced yay-yay) and his mom will be "mama" (pronounced maa-maa) - it's the Chinese names for grandma and grandpa.

[Daphne's Mommy]

My parents will be Nanny (British) and Grandpa

My in-laws will be Oma (German) and Papa

[KellyM123]

Since we already have kids that road is paved for us...my mom is Grandma G, my dad is Grumps, DH's mom is Grandma Pat and DH's stepfather is Paw-paw.

We were going to let my son (the first grandchild) naturally pick the grandparents names and set the trend for grandchildren to come. Well, he ended up with a long speech delay and didn't utter his first word until 3! We couldn't leave all his photo albums and baby books unlabeled for any longer so we let the grandparents pick their names! LOL

[Amanda82]

My mom goes by Gran to my nephews so she'll be considered Gran for Andrew as well. My father would have been Papa.....for DH, his grandparents are Grandma and Papa and Granny and Papa, so as the great-grandparents they will probably stay with those titles...I dunno what DH's parents have decided yet...if they don't tell me what they want to go by, I may call them Grandma and Papa "T"

[Lilmom]

This is something I never cared much about. What I did *NOT* realize is how much my MIL cares about it.

I always called both sets of grandparetns "granma and granpa". They both had the same titles and I always figured that was normal. So ok, fast forward to when I'm preggo with Ivy and shortly there after. MIL starts bugging me about what Ivy will call her and the other grandparents. I reply "uh, grandma and grandpa" And she says "Oh thats wonderful! And I'll be the ONLY grandma so there will be NO confusion oh I'm so GLAD I'm the only grandma!" Ok, now, my mom died in 2004 from cancer. I loved her dearly and she suffered a pretty miserable nasty death. It's kind of a touchy topic and here is my MIL revelling in being the only grandma. I was... not happy. I mentioned it to DH and he was like, "you must have misunderstood, my mom is a mean ***** but shes not cruel" So then sure enough on CHRISTMAS (of all days) she happens to start saying, right in front of him and to the whole family how wonderful and blessed she is to be the only grandma... omg... well thankfully he went off on her big time.

Ok so anyway back to the original topic, she thens goes on to forcing Ivy into calling her husband, DHs step dad "pop-pop" instead of granpa because, get this, he's not biologicaly related to her. Ok, I don't REALLY care what she calls them, but to change the title because of blood... stupid. IMO "pop-pop" has been more of a father to DH than DHs sperm donor dad. There is no way I would let Ivy call that waste of space grandpa just because of blood. Alright, anyway since shes only 2, she tends to call both of them either pop-pop or grandpa because kids don't really know the difference. Infact she now calls anyone with grey hair granma or pop-pop or granpa. Sometimes she'll call them granpa "so-n-so". She also calls all the ladies at daycare "mommy so-n-so" so Mommy Amy, mommy darla, etc... I don't really care though, I know kids get that stuff later, they don't understand too much at age 2.

Alright, so then for Ivy's birthday MIL, FIL, my dad, and my dads GF all visit. Well. I tell Ivy to call Dads GF either by her name or she can call her "nana" whichever, I don't care. The only reason I don't have her call her granma is becuase they aren't married or living together and I only just met her a year ago, so just as far as the whole relationship goes, I know she doesn't rank a granma... thing is, again, kids that age do not know the difference. SO Ivy starts calling her granma anyway, which I figured would happen, but I honestly really don't care. I was only trying to make a distinction because I was worried abouthow my dad would feel if she started calling his GF granma (he loves his gf, but is still sore over the loss of my mom) and I knew MIL wouldn't like it. So anyway, MIL hears Ivy calling dads GF "granma". Oh my dear lord, did she make a scene. First shes like "did you tell ehr to call her that?" Blah blah, then she confonts dads GF and is all like "please tell her to call you by your name or nana, because you are NOT the grandma, I'M the grandma" and then she rips into me (despite the fact that I told her 5 times I can't control what comes out of Ivy's mouth) telling me that I taught Ivy to do it on purpose! Omg! What a psycho!

ANYWAY... moral of the story... you should definately discuss this topic ahead of time because SOME people might care one way or the other what theyre called, but at certain ages, kids are just gonna call all older people one thing or the other. MY nephews called my aunt and uncle granma and granpa until they were like 4 or 5. My brother told them repeatedly that they were not granma and granpa, just auntie and uncle, but they didn't get it, and it's such a small thing, why torture the poor kid over it?

The weird thing about it is that Ivy learns peoples NAMES just fine. One would think that if she can remember peoples names after meeting them once, that she could understand that this person is nana and this person is granma, but I guess it really doesn't work like that for whatever reason.

[happymom2Logan]

Grandpa and Grandma for both likely.

[~my2beauties~]

wow Ellen, your MIL sounds like a real piece of work (no offense). That's such a nasty thing to say about being the "only" grandma.

I actually forgot about this part...my dad is remarried, but I was 20 when he got remarried and I don't consider his wife my "stepmom" or anything at all. She's just my dad's wife. She never raised us or anything and well I don't hate her, but I'm not the biggest fan of her either.

When my sister had her 2 girls, she kept insisting that she be called grandma too. My sister was beyond pissed that she would even suggest that she be called that. I love my dad, but he always wants his wife involved in everything and also keeps insisting that she play a huge role in the kids lives and wants them to call her grandma too. I'm also against this, but I know when Sweet Pea's born and starts talking, they're going to bring it up to me to do that. My sister ended up having a huge fight with his wife about this and other things and well now she basically hates my sister. I usually keep things like that to myself, unlike my sister, who's very opinionated, so I don't know what I'm going to do about that because I don't really want our children calling her grandma either...because I don't consider her their grandma. I dunno...I know that it will start a huge argument at one time or another.

[jenni_48760]

My 2 kids call my Mom and step dad (who raised me) grandma and grandpa, and they call DH's Dad and step mom Papa keith, and grandma Lorie. They call DH's mom grandma Christie.

Now for the great grandparents, they call them Grandma & Grandpa (last name)

[szczepanski]

Nolan is the first grandbaby for my MIL & and my dad, so they will most likely just be Grandma & Grandpa. Although my dad is not okay with the "grandpa" title so he might just ask to be called by his name, hahahaha.

My grandparents are Gramps & Grammy and DH's is Granny! So we wont have any confusion.

[JMJJ2075]

My mom/stepdad "NaNa and Grampa" My dad/stepmom "papa and granma" and MIL/FIL "granma and lala". Dont ask where lala came in, just one day my oldest son started calling him lala and it stuck and now both my kids call him that. sooo i am sure it will stay the same.

[AllyssaM]

DH's parents:
Mom - Nana
Dad - Grandpa Rick
StepMom- Grandma Steph

His sister has 2 boys already & that's what they go by.

My mom - Grammie
My dad - Pops

[Lilmom]

Originally Posted by Sweet Angel Katrina

wow Ellen, your MIL sounds like a real piece of work (no offense). That's such a nasty thing to say about being the "only" grandma.

I actually forgot about this part...my dad is remarried, but I was 20 when he got remarried and I don't consider his wife my "stepmom" or anything at all. She's just my dad's wife. She never raised us or anything and well I don't hate her, but I'm not the biggest fan of her either.

When my sister had her 2 girls, she kept insisting that she be called grandma too. My sister was beyond pissed that she would even suggest that she be called that. I love my dad, but he always wants his wife involved in everything and also keeps insisting that she play a huge role in the kids lives and wants them to call her grandma too. I'm also against this, but I know when Sweet Pea's born and starts talking, they're going to bring it up to me to do that. My sister ended up having a huge fight with his wife about this and other things and well now she basically hates my sister. I usually keep things like that to myself, unlike my sister, who's very opinionated, so I don't know what I'm going to do about that because I don't really want our children calling her grandma either...because I don't consider her their grandma. I dunno...I know that it will start a huge argument at one time or another.

No offense taken. She is a giant *****.

[Nami]

My MIL will be Farmor(Swedish for Fathers mother), FIL is Farfar(Swedish for Fathers Father).
My mom will be Granny and her husband will be Grandpa or whatever he feels like being called, I think he's just thinking using his name since he's not my father. My Father disowned me when I got pregnant with DS so he gets called nothing.

[Alicia W.]

Likely "grandma" and "grandpa" though DH's mom and my mom both have the same name so when we are trying to tell Ds something about a specific one we either say Grandma Debbie or Grandma Deb Deb. He only has one living grandpa so that's easy.

Oh and Perrin sometimes says "yaya" when referring to my dad as well because he picked it up from Ni Hao Kailan lol.

[Lori B.]

DD is around my parents the most and she started calling them Nah-Nah and Paw-Paw when she was about 2 yrs old, and she still calls them that.

MIL is Nana and FIL is Grandpa. She doesn't like either one of them and neither do I. *L*

[Alicia W.]

oh yes... forgot about the OTHER people in the picture lol. My parents only recently divorced and both have SO's now..... my mom's BF is pretty big in the picture of things and WANTS to be considered family. He has asked Perrin to call him grandpa and I don't want to make a big fuss over it but it does irk me a little. He is a nice guy though and has stuck with my mom through cancer and a lot so I can concede to him to some degree. Before they moved in together though I made it perfectly clear he was NOT part of my family and I didn't want him acting like it. (long story short... they were together a bit before my parent's divorce but it wasn't exactly secret)

However... my dad's gf, though I am sure she is a nice person, I barely know and I do NOT want my son calling her grandma. I will likely tell them to call her by her name. My mom lives with her SO and my dad just sees his SO on the weekends mostly so I don't really see it as the same situation.

[sassytiff]

My kids call my parents Grandma Debbie and Grandpa Larry and my in laws Grandma Lori and Grandpa Mike...except Mady and she call my mom "the short grandma" and my mil "the tall grandma", LOL. I'm not sure why she can't remember their names but whatever, this works for her and they don't mind.

[AmandaLynn84]

My MIL is Nana, my mom is Grandma, and the grandfathers don't care much what they're called. To be honest, I can't picture either of them as a "grandpa". I think they'll both end up being Pop, or pop-pop or poppy or something.

My Dh's grandmother has requested to be called Gi-Gi (short for great grandma), and my grandmother has always been Nanny to the grandkids, and I think she's sticking with that for the great grandkids as well.

[Mrs_Brady]

Ok, so my girls call my mom Nanny, because she refuses to be called grandma. LOL..

they call MY grandparens grandma and grandpa, like I do.

They call my dad Grandpa Ric. They call his wife Grandma Mary.

They call Dh's (their step dad) yaya and Grandpa. So, 2 grandpa's so far lol...

they dont see their bio dad's parents anymore, but they were Grammy and Papa.

They call MY great grandparents Nona (italian) and Russ. Nona and Russ never married, so it's always just been Russ. LOL