Suesue, you missed this Gem.

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My cousins call their mom's parents "Meemaw and Peepaw." It has always drove me crazy. I remember they wanted us to call them that when we were younger, too. I stuck with Mr. and Mrs. XYZ because I wasn't related to them and those nicknames annoyed me to no end.

Yet, up until the day he died, I had no issues calling my paternal grandfather "Pap-pap."

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Lol. My grandmother still signs all of the cards she gives to me "Nana."

I have never ever called her that.

[sparkythelawyer]

Somehow my nephew took to calling my dad "Papa" and it stuck. But Que, that is hilarious.

[verycontrary247]

We have always called my maternal grandmother "Grandma Firstname". Recently she randomly decided that her great-grandchildren will refer to her as Meemaw. I foresee this being really confusing.

[sparkythelawyer]

Apr 4, 2013 11:01:30 GMT -5 Que? said:

Apr 4, 2013 10:39:34 GMT -5 sparkythelawyer said:

Somehow my nephew took to calling my dad "Papa" and it stuck. But Que, that is hilarious.

I only put the ? next to 'Papa' because it's also just a made up term of endearment since my kid doesn't know them or refer to them as anything yet. I actually think it's kind of cute, and it suits my FIL, but I have to oppose it on principle, lol.

You absolutely need to oppose on principle :-)

[leeann]

My brother and I had 2 grandmothers with the same last name (grandma and great grandma) and when we were young, instead of calling them something logical, like Grandma FN, we named one Grandma Downstairs because she lived downstairs from us and the one Grandma Westing, because her husband worked for Westinghouse. I have no idea why we did this, but we used to call them that to their faces.

[litebright]

Awesome.

I think my mom and dad are trying to get "Grambo" to catch on. Like, a Grandma/Rambo mashup. What can I say, they love 80s movies.

But really, it's like fetch. Never gonna happen.

[goaskalice]

One Christmas my grandma wrote "love aunt Ruthie" on my sister's card. We were her only 2 grandchildren, but she did have a lot of nieces and nephews. We laughed and laughed, luckily she was a good sport about it.

[speckledfrog]

Apr 4, 2013 10:13:56 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

This is hilarious, and I'd make a point of addressing her as Grandma whenever possible. I did this for two years because my MIL insisted on being called "Mema," which she thought was super cute and not grandma-ish.

Then one day BIL made fun of it and called it redneck and now pronounces it with a drawn-out drawl, like, "Meee-mawwww," and she's regretting it. And now we all call her Mema.

lol.

My  mom briefly contemplated Memaw when my  nephew was born (we eventually went with Nanny) and MH insisted on saying like a braying donkey.

[sugarbear]

Our kids call my step-mom (their only grandma), "Mumsy."
And I called my grandparents Didi and Grinka, thanks to a cousin.

[LeggsBenedict]

Okay, grambo must happen. You have to make grambo happen.

[rex]

Apr 4, 2013 10:17:54 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

omg, @quesera, I love that idea. "Hi, Patricia! Hi, John!"

I have a cousin who calls her grandfather "peepee."

My dad said that if our kid calls him that he will say "just call me (firstname)."

I still think it's hilarious.

[adhdfashion]

My MIL wants the girls to call her Grandmommy. This is what H and SIL call their Grandma. Grandmommy is still alive, around, and my girls know her. MIL's name is Laura so my oldest calls her Grammy La La. MIL still is trying to get the girls to call her Grandmommy. My Oldest is going to be 4 this summer. Give up woman!

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This seems like a good place to ask.

My FIL (who I don't like, so I am considering if this colors my opinion) calls himself "Papa" to my nephew and that's what nephew calls him.

I don't want my soon to be born calling him Papa. Grandpa, any varition of would be fine. But Papa makes me cringe. I am 99% certain I would feel the same if it was my dad or stepFIL.

Am I being unreasonable? And if not, how to tell my husband that FIL needs to be something else so he can tell his dad? (sensitive topic because of me not liking FIL and DH can be sensitive to that)

[chickadee77]

We have a friend in KY that named their stray cat rescue Peepaw, because it had a terrible infection and was peeing everywhere.

That's all I have to contribute here.

[moolarkey]

I can't stand meemaw and papaw. They are like nails on a chalk board. We are grandma/grandpa to our 15 month old grandson - whenever he starts actually calling us anything but his other grandparents are .. I think it is nonni and nanno.

When I hear meemaw and papaw I get a mental picture of two old toothless people, the male sitting around in t-shirt, dirty/baggy jeans and suspenders. I really do get that mental image.

[kcandbrae]

my father insisted on brae calling him 'pappy' which he does. and sometimes it's prefaced with 'crappy' which-you know, if you're going to choose a name that silly....

my mother decided that she would be grandy (wtf, stupid made-up name). of course brae couldn't say that, so she was lovingly dubbed 'dee'.

so he has a crappy pappy and a dee.

and my parents thought they were so clever.

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Doesn't "papa" come out naturally for a lot of kids who are learning to talk and trying to say Grandpa? My son calls all three of his grandfathers "papa." It's his version of grandpa.

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Apr 4, 2013 15:15:16 GMT -5 @schmancy said:

Doesn't "papa" come out naturally for a lot of kids who are learning to talk and trying to say Grandpa? My son calls all three of his grandfathers "papa." It's his version of grandpa.

Maybe?  I'd be fine if the kid did it while trying to learn Grandpa.

What I don't like is FIL signing "papa" on cards and leaving it at "papa" when they're 10.  It's probably flameful but I don't like it and don't want to encourage it.  At the same time....it may be a pick your battles thing because I'm being unreasonable this time?

[glassofsyrah]

When I was pregnant, my mom declared she wanted to be called Mimi. I had to tell her to pick again because that was the proposed nickname for our Amelia. And I do call Amelia "Mimi" a lot of the time.

My mom ended up being Pink Grandma because she and my MIL were sitting together at the dining table and the only way Amelia could differentiate between them was their shirt colors. Pink Grandma and Red Grandma were born that day.

[berbles]

My mom keeps trying to come up with her own grandma name. And I keep telling her the best way is to just let the kid decide what to call you. Her name is Diana and my nephew ended up calling her Gramma Nana instead of Grandma Diana. She actually kinda likes it! I told her (again) not to force the same name on my niece (different siblings' kids). My niece has 8 grandparents. She will have to come up with some way of differentiating them! She's only 10 months, so it doesn't matter yet.

[Redpoppy]

I babysat for a girl who called her grandfather Pete. I assumed that was his name but it was John.