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Both sets of Grandparents in our family insisted on being Grandma and Grandad

So Grandma Jane and Grandad Colin, and Grandma Nonny and Grandad John...

DD1 calls my parents her 'old' grandma and grandad, and DH's parents her 'new' grandma and grandad. Despite the fact that my parents are about 10 years younger... but my parents came to visit last November, and then my in-laws arrived at Christmas, so they were the 'new' ones...

[readyandraring]

hmm there are some great names out there, I am glad others don't think I am reacting about Glam-Ma, also I am not sure what the other grandmothers will think who are just happy with Nanna!

I am sure she will get past it, we are just going to give her a list of names to choose from, I think she is so unsure about her role as a grandmother and how much we want her involved that she is a bit nervous. I am sure she will calm down, I just need to keep her settled and involved.

I was a little annoyed when she laughed at our idea of a family photo board in bubs room, she did not like the idea. As we are in Singapore all our family is in the US and Australia, we thought by having a family board up we will continually talk to bub about the family and show them the photos so they know faces.

She laughed and said it is too young to know and that we will just skype, DH jumped in and said we think it will help and we just want bub to want to feel comfortable and know faces when he/she meets people. Oh well people are always going to laugh at parenting choices I am sure. She also thinks we should keep bubs bedroom as a storage place as bub is not going to know if they have a nice room or not! She knew I was annoyed about that.

oh I got off topic! sorry!

[MrsLauren]

Mum mum is Nanny, her mum is Nanna

My dad is Pappa and my step mum is 'G'.

Hubby's mum is Grandma, and she's the youngest of them all !

[athnessa]

My mother also didn't want to be grandma so she came up with babooshka. My DS now calls her "Boocar". My dad is Papa and FIL is Grandpa and MIL is Nanna.

[teemoodesign]

readyandraring - the photo board is a great idea. ds1 could pick out people in photos just before he turned 2? maybe. he LOVES photos and has our old doggie (karsha who passed away july 2010) near his change table. he always talks about her!

[le_auteur]

My mum and dad are Grammy and Pop to my nephew, and my DH's mum will be Grandma (like her mum was)

[MusicGal34]

readyandraring I agree with teemoo, the photoboard sounds like a fabulous idea! At the end of the day this is your child, so she can laugh all she wants, but it's ultimately up to you what you want to do for your child. It sounds like a wonderful way to introduce your child to their extended family when everyone is so far away!

[readyandraring]

thanks ladies, family means alot to me so I really want to do what I can considering the distance.

It sounds like a lot of parents like to carry on the tradition of what their parents were called which is nice, though I did tell my in-laws who knows what the child will end up calling you and it looks like I was right, Athnessa I like Boocar! very cute.

[Little Duck]

There is a very, very long list of grandparent names here: http://www.grandparents.com/gp/content/act...rent-names.html

Rather disturbingly "Glamma" appears! Argh. I suspect that when it comes to the crunch it won't matter as your kids will end up calling her Grandma. My MIL wanted to be "Nan" as she thought Nana was a bit old (fair enough) but one of her grandson's (9 years) calls her Nana because that is the word he is familiar with so he just converted "Nan" to Nana himself. My DS calls her "Nanny" because he sticks "y" on the end of everything! So they can wish away, the kids will end up calling them something else!

[dizzy-anne]

Ouch ready! Glam-ma??? Oh dear.

Mine are this:

My Dad - Grandpa Dave
his partner - Aunty

My Mum - Nana

FIL - Grandpa Bill
his partner - haven't discussed yet - probably just her name

MIL - Grandma
SFIL - Opa (he's Dutch)