What do your children call your parents?

Question

What do you call your grandparents? I have always called mine mammaw and pappaw. My fiance calls his grandma and grandpa. Our girls calls everyone but their father' s stepmom mammaw or pappaw; they call their pappaw's wife nana. I kind of wish my girls could call their grandma's mammaw and grandpa's pappaw.

cs r: His stepmother has all the grandkids call her nana; even her blood grandkids. According to her the term grandma makes a woman sound old and she isn't old enough to be a grandma. She's in her 50's, my parents are in their early 40's, go figure...

Answer 1

I called my grandparents Mamaw and Papaw.......My kids call their grandparents: Granny and Pa......and Gramma (their other grampa has passed away but they called him grampa) Personally, when I have grandkids, I want them to call me Grams.....I kinda like that......My husbands grandkids call him Papaw.

Answer 2

My daughter calls her "grandma" Na-Na. My mom feels like shes to young to be called grandma(shes only 43). and her grandpa is called pa-pa. pappaw and mammaw soundd like they are about 70 or 80 and in the deep country
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Answer 3

This is the result of some of the elder persons' attempts to inject the distinction between a step mother and a natural mother into the kids' mind. Correct the children. Every grand parent deserves respect and should be introduced to the children in their first encounters.Wrong language will put the affected elders in a tricky situation in dealing with the child. But the blame for the mess will squarely be on the mother who is the custodian of moral standards for the infants. By the way Nanna is not indicative of step mother status.
Do correct the kids.

Answer 4

My daughter calls them Nana and Papa. On my hubby side, it's GrandBuni. Great Grandma is just Gram.

Answer 5

i call mine grandma and grandpa.
its a pet peeve of mine when i hear all the oter names like nana and poepoe and mammaw and pappaw and stuff.

Answer 6

While my parents passed away before my children were born, my oldest brother and his wife have become the "grandparents". My brother is Pep and his wife is Mem (French Canadian slang for Meme and Pepe). My husband's mother is "Grandma"

Answer 7

My girl calls both sets different names. One set is Nanna and Pappa, and the other set Grandma and Pops. She calls her great grandparents GG and Gp.

Answer 8

Grandma and Grandad

Poppa and Irene

Grandma and Opa

Pap and Grandaddy for my grandparents.

Answer 9

my mother is granny B and my father was grandpa McKinney which was my last name before I was married and the my husbands parents were called granma and gradpa. My gradnmother we calles by her first name and my gradpa was called gradpa Carl so its what ever your child feel comfortable with except in my mothers case she would not answer to anything except granny B go figure her name is Bonnie lol she had her mind set on it before any of us ever had any grandchildern.

Answer 10

My kids call my in-laws, Memaw and Papa. My youngest also refers to my MIL as, Nemo (like the fish), it's her version of Memaw. While, my parents were still alive, my daughter called them, Gramma and Grampa. My mom insisted that she not call her by the Japanese word, Bachan (grandma); since, Bachan was what my sister and I called our grandmother (my mom's MIL).