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Do your kids call their grandparents the same thing you called yours?

Posted on 4/21/19 at 7:28 pm
Posted by DavidTheGnome
Monroe
Member since Apr 2015
29165 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 7:28 pm
Mine do, I called mine grandma and grandpa and that's what my kids call my parents also.
Posted by Chillini
Member since Sep 2012
3153 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 7:29 pm to
No. I called mine grandma and grandpa. Grandma stuck but it seems to be Papa for their grandfather. My sisters kids do it and mine seem to have adopted it.
Posted by whit
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2010
10998 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 7:30 pm to
Posted by lsu13lsu
Member since Jan 2008
11480 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 7:30 pm to
I feel like it is driven by the oldest grandkids unless one of the grandparents is hell bent on being called something which is the case a lot.
Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
62765 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 7:32 pm to
Odds are they do. I mean how many different names are there for a grandparent?

Grandma?
Grandmommy?
Grandmother?
Or some of the slightly sillier ones like "Mimaw" or "Mimi"?
Posted by Martini
Near Athens
Member since Mar 2005
48838 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 7:33 pm to
Ours are dead so they don’t call them anything but dead.
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
25623 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 7:34 pm to
quote:

I mean how many different names are there for a grandparent


I hear Mawmaw and Pawpaw a lot in LA
Posted by Uncle Don
The Big House
Member since Jul 2018
4229 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 7:35 pm to
Do they call you a bitch arse troll? Because that is what we call you.
This post was edited on 4/21/19 at 7:35 pm
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
19442 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 7:36 pm to
No
Posted by DavidTheGnome
Monroe
Member since Apr 2015
29165 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 7:44 pm to
Wtf called up your arse
Posted by greygoose
Member since Aug 2013
11449 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 7:49 pm to
quote:

I hear Mawmaw and Pawpaw a lot in LA


For whatever reason, me and my brother called both of our grandmothers. MawMaw. We were her only grandkids that did. I don't know why this is. We were her youngest grandkids too, so there wasn't a precedent.

My dad called his grandfather Pop, I called my grandfather Pop, and my daughter calls my dad, Pop. I imagine my grandkids will call me Dirty 'Ol Bastard.
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
30394 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 8:32 pm to
Mine might if they knew me, and my parents.
Posted by windshieldman
Member since Nov 2012
12818 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 8:33 pm to
Powpow and mowmow
Posted by PlanoPrivateer
Frisco, TX
Member since Jan 2004
2795 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 9:29 pm to
Mamere and Papere

That's what my wife called her grandparents, our kids called my wife's parents and what our grandchildren now call my wife and me.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
48501 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 9:31 pm to
Maw maw and paw paw were like parents to me. My kid calls my dad paw paw. She calls my mom nana because my mom doesn't like feeling old for whatever reason.

Grandma and grandpa were the ones we weren't close to.
Posted by HoustonChick86
Catalina Wine Mixer
Member since Dec 2009
57286 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 9:36 pm to
quote:

I mean how many different names are there for a grandparent?


My MIL wanted to be called Geaux-Ma.

We shot that down pretty quickly, the whole family, not just my husband and I. He can't talk yet, but we call them Grandma and Grandpa around him. We will see what he picks.
Posted by Rougaroux
Madisonville
Member since Feb 2017
723 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 9:39 pm to
Grandpa, Grandma, Pops, and Granny

I had a Grandaddy, Grandmother, and Paw paw

Maw maw RIP before I could talk
This post was edited on 4/21/19 at 9:41 pm
Posted by hawgndodge
Member since Jun 2009
4745 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 9:42 pm to
My sister had kids 6 years before I did so Gaga was already established for my mom. I hate it.

My uncle is "Bear" for his grandkids. I love it. I told him I'm using that when I'm a grandparent.
Posted by TbirdSpur2010
ALAMO CITY
Member since Dec 2010
134026 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 10:05 pm to
No. My parents spent some time in Greece, so they like to be called the Greek names for grandparents.
Posted by keakar
Member since Jan 2017
30002 posts
Posted on 4/21/19 at 10:08 pm to
names are learned, they will call them by the name you tell them to call them
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