<p>My kids call them Grandma or Grandpa + their first name.</p>
<p>Example: Grandpa Jack, Grandma Jill, Grandpa Hansel, Grandma Gretel.</p>
<p>I think we are the ones who encouraged them to call them that, so as not to get too confused by which Grandma or Grandpa we were referring to.</p>
<p>^^that’s exactly how we called our 4 grandparents, oregonianmom, and they loved it because it was “so American” and they had been young immigrants! The last thing they’d have wanted was to be a Bubbe or Zayde…made them think of the old country. You never know what’s in peoples’ minds!</p>
<p>I have the weirdest ones, we called my Gparents, Ween and Daddy Ju, why you ask? Gmother just said have them call me Loreen so that became Ween Gfather’s name was Julian which became Daddy Ju, “Ween” was mostly pronounced “Wing” which is even weirder, “Wing’s” daughter is called WooWoo by her grandkids, obviously a strange trend. My kids call my parents Mums and Big Daddy.</p>
<p>For some reason, we included my grandparents’ first names - Isaac was PaPa Ike and Bertha was BerBer.</p>
<p>My mother is Granmolly. My father is Grandpa. They experimented with being Oma and Opa (German for Grandma and Grandpa) when my oldest was born in Germany, but decided they didn’t like it. My husband’s parents were also Grandma and Grandpa, so we always had to distinguish them by where they lived. (For a long time it was the White house grandma and grandpa.)</p>
<p>mom’s dad: papa jack
dad’s mom: grandma</p>
<p>no idea where papa jack came from, other than his name is john and he goes by jack! for a while we switched to grandpa, but papa jack has a nice personal ring to it. he gets a kick out of it too. pretty sure my siblings and i began that tradition as we’re his only grandkids.</p>
<p>I called mine Anny and Granddad.</p>
<p>D calls hers Granny and Granda, and Grandma</p>
<p>Oh the WEIRDEST names I’ve ever heard on my DH’s side.</p>
<p>His son calls his grandparents Bruce and Bruce 2 (Bruce being grandpa and well I have no idea where Bruce 2 came from but it refers to grandma).</p>
<p>And my DH called his grandmother …Gassy. And it wasn’t meant as an insult. </p>
<p>I’m not making this up.</p>
<p>Only knew my mother’s parents, which my brother and I quite simply called “Nana” and “Grampa.” </p>
<p>I would ask my parents what they’d want to be called when I have kids, but I’m young enough yet that I’m worried I’d give them a head full of grey hair for it. :)</p>
<p>I only knew my dad’s parents, I call my grandmother Grandma and was grandfather was Pops, which came from the fact that when I started talking I couldn’t pronounce grandpa. That spread to those younger than me in the family, and it will more than likely what my dad will be called if he ever becomes a grandfather. Since I never met my mom’s parents (died before I was born) I will ask my mom if that time ever comes.</p>
<p>My folks are nonny and pop pop (pronouned Nahne), and H’s folks Mammaw and pappaw. Greatgrandma was GG.</p>
<p>My FIL’s name is Logan. He and his brother were close in age, personalities etc, and got to be know as Pete and Repeat. Literally. When I met him most of the family called him Pete. Funny, his brother grew up with his given name, but Logan was affectionately known as Pete to family and close friends. To this day (he is in his late 80’s) he is Pete to his longtime friends that are still around.</p>
<p>My kids called my parents mama and papa, and my FIL papa-Mose. My grandmother was called mommom (prounounced mummum)</p>
<p>My parents were called Dada and Bop! Named by s1. And now we all call them that.</p>
<p>My father wanted to be called Pepe (acute accent over the second e; pronounced Pep-ay–his ancestors were French Canadian). Our oldest saw the name in print when she was very young and called him Pee-Pee. </p>
<p>We decided to stick with Grandpa…</p>
<p>My parents are abuelo and abuela (grandfather and grandmother in Spanish). My M-I-L was Nena.</p>
<p>My paternal gp’s: </p>
<pre><code> Momma Bess and Big Daddy
</code></pre>
<p>(I had other names for GM since we REALLY didn’t like each other.</p>
<p>My maternals were both dead before I could talk.</p>
<p>In my family, my great grandmother was Gammy
My grandmother was Nana, so was my mother when she became a grandmother.
My grandmother became Nana + last name so our kids did not confuse the grand and great .</p>
<p>My husbands parents are Farmor and Farfar ( father’s mother and father’s father in Swedish )
If it was the other was around it woud be Mormor and Morfar. No variations in Sweden.</p>
<p>My kids’s say Grandma Claire and Grandma Lois.
My FIL was Grandad, and when his father was alive (only my D slightly remembers him) he was Great-Grandad. My kids never knew my Dad, so we didn’t need to differentiate.</p>
<p>Nana and Poppy, Gram, and Opah and Omah (my stepmother-in-law is German).</p>
<p>My children call my parents “Mam” and “Pappy.” Mam got shortened after my son as a young toddler kept calling my mother “mamm-ahh”. Sometimes, they even called her Mammy, which we thought hilarious. </p>
<p>My MIL, who is from Paris, is “Grandmere.” My FIL was dead before my DH and I married.</p>