<p>Im partial to Granny myself.
<a href=“IRENE "GRANNY" RYAN sings "I'M A WOMAN" by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller with ROY ROGERS & DALE EVANS - YouTube”>IRENE "GRANNY" RYAN sings "I'M A WOMAN" by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller with ROY ROGERS & DALE EVANS - YouTube;
<p>I like Granny also.</p>
<p>I’ll take anything that I’m still sentient enough to recognize. Can you tell my offspring seen hesitant to marry and reproduce? </p>
<p>I called my grandmother Nana (or Nanny), but that seems to be a lot more common on the East Coast where I grew up than in the Midwest. I have a hard time finding greeting cards for Nana out here. I get ones that say Grandma or Grandmother and cross it out and write Nana. I’ve heard - and it was a pretty reputable source - that Hallmark puts more “Nana” cards on the east coast. </p>
<p>We used “Besta” (short for bestamore I was told) for my mother’s Norwegian grandmother the few times we saw/heard of her. Never had grandmas- they all died too young. My mother never got to be a grandmother (my sister and I, in our late 20’s, used to tell her she didn’t care if wwe got married, she just wanted to be a grandmother). We refer to son’s Indian grandmother as Grandma and now use just Grandpa for the remaining grandfather- both were called Grandpa.</p>
<p>At the rate H and I met and married we will wait at least one to two decades more- if we live that long!</p>
<p>There’s a LOT more to life than just reproducing, thank goodness.</p>
<p>What I DON’T want to be called is what my friend’s kids called her deceased mother: “grandma in the picture”</p>
<p>You have a daughter at age 22, she has a daughter at 22, boom you’re a gramma at 44, but you still feel young. OK, I get that, but i think it is pathetic when a grandparent doesn’t want to be called “grandma” or “grandpa” because it makes them sound old to others, whether you are 44 or 54 or whatever. </p>
<p>"You have a daughter at age 22, she has a daughter at 22, boom you’re a gramma at 44, but you still feel young. OK, I get that, but i think it is pathetic when a grandparent doesn’t want to be called “grandma” or “grandpa” because it makes them sound old to others, whether you are 44 or 54 or whatever.
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<p>Right! A person should enjoy all the “you look too young to be a grandma” compliments! :)</p>
<p>Funny that the person who is a parent at 18-22 doesn’t think they’re too young to be called “mom” or “dad” (I’m not saying that I would think that.)</p>
<p>In our area it’s common to call grandparents “Maw-Maw” and “Paw-Paw,” in part because it’s still fairly common here to become a grandparent in one’s forties and Grandma and Grandpa sound “too old.” My parents had never heard this form of address until they moved to West Virginia from the Midwest, and it was like nails on a chalkboard to them (and me.) My kids called them Grandma and Grandpa. I tend to lean toward Gran myself, but never Maw-Maw. (And don’t even get me started on “bubby” for brother and “sissy” for sister …)</p>
<p>Bestfriendsgirl, I’m also from the South where Maw-Maw/Paw-Paw are common, but I am not a fan! I don’t really like any of the silly-sounding names (NeeNee, PopPop, MiMi that are also fairly common here).</p>
<p>I’ll take Grandma any day! I’m already 50 so no worries about “sounding old”, but I hope they graduate from college before I acquire the title!</p>
<p>I am also anxiously awaiting grandkids! I had the pleasure of helping a young neighbor with her babies. When the first one was learning to speak, I had my arm in a cast. Every time he saw me, he would kiss my cast and say boo boo. Well, the name stuck and I am Boo Boo to my dear, sweet boys, now 13 and 9. With my own grandkids, I imagine we will be Nonna and Nonno. But I really don’t care what they call me. Although I did have a friend whose MIL insisted she call her Mrs. XXX. When the grandkids came around, she wanted to be called grandmother, but my friend continued to call her Mrs. XXX, as did the kids. I do not want to be known as Mrs. XXX!</p>
<p>fishy - all I can say is “payback!” What kind of mil would insist to be caled Mrs. X? Only the kind that deserves her grandkids to call her the same. After reading this thread Grammy suddenly appeals to me - it never would have before. </p>
<p>" I don’t really like any of the silly-sounding names (NeeNee, PopPop, MiMi…" They’re silly sounding to YOU, maybe, but there’s likely meaning behind them. “Mimi” is popular with many of the French Canadians I grew up with-my nieces call their paternal grandmother Mimi, and she’s about the most proper lady you can imagine. H’s nephew calls his mom NeeNee because somehow that’s what he thought her name was pronounced as a kid and she requested that her grandkids call her Grandma NeeNee.So to HER, it’s not silly at all. It’s not carved in stone that Grandma and Grandpa are the only “correct” names…</p>
<p>I knew someone who called their grandma Go Gran. When the first grandchild was asked if she wanted to go visit grandma she would reply go gran, go gran. So go gran it was :)</p>
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<p>Please excuse me while I go wipe a tear or two because that’s exactly what I fear. </p>
<p>emilybee: SOMEONE definitely still uses it… that’s what I call my paternal grandparents :). My maternal grandparents are Grandma and Grandpa.
While on my mother’s side there were never great-grandparents in the picture (my grandpa’s a Holocaust survivor and my grandma’s parents died in Argentina before my mom was born), on my dad’s side, his great-grandfather was Zayde Itzik (his name), but my great-grandparents were all Morebubby and Morezayde. I really have no idea where that popped up. My grandparents have carried this over to their great-grandchildren, at least partially- while my Bubby is Morebubby, my Zayde is Altezayde (or old Zayde)- don’t ask me why he picked that of his own volition, but it’s not my problem… It can get a bit confusing, though, now that the youngest granddaughter and the oldest great-granddaughter are the same age and best friends- one’s Bubby is the other’s Auntie ___, and her Morebubby is the other’s Bubby. </p>
<p>When it happens we are just hoping for somehting not horrible. My uncle was called Crappaw because the oldest grandchild couldn’t pronounce Grandpa and since he is a surly old coot, it stuck. It is very common here to differentiate between the paternal and maternal grandparents with one set having a nickname. I am counting on Nanny and Papaw since the closest parent gets the nickname. Of course, I have a long way to go (as I knock on wood). </p>
<p>My grandkids call me Grandma and my husband is Papa. He was going to be Grandpa, but our oldest grandson couldn’t pronounce that at first and it came out Papa, and that stuck. So the other three followed suit. They call their other grandmother Gran and their other grandfather is also Papa, so they’ll use his last name or our last name if it isn’t obvious which grandfather they’re talking about. I LOVE being a Grandma and would have gone by whatever the grandkids or their Dad and Mom wanted 
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<p>I have already decided(way ahead of the game, hopefully) that I am going to be called Nanny and my husband will be Papoo(Greek)</p>
<p>Only had one living grandmother by time I came along. We called her Grandmama. My grandfather was PaPop.
DH’s grandparents were MawMaw and PawPaw…yes, we’re in the south.
My kids called their grandmothers “grandma first name”. Their one grandfather was called PawPaw because that was family tradtion.</p>