What do your kids call your mother?

[FrenchHen]

My mom: Nana
My MIL: Grandma (First name)
My stepmom: Annie
My grandmother: grandmother (pronounced gremmother)

 

[Chick_a_dee]

I only have one grand parent LOL, because my mum's dad (who I actually call my mums dad) is somewhere on the streets of London, England or dead... who knows, her mum is dead in a drunk driving hit 'n' run back in the 70s (my uncle, who was 13 at the time, was also killed). My dads dad is dead, he died of a heart attack when my dad was 16 so I all I have left is my dads mum, who she prefers we call her Mum (or Mam cause she's welsh lol and says it differently) but I call her Gramma. I also have a "grandma fill in" on my mums side, my Great Aunt Jeanne and Great Uncle Bunny (his actual name is Warren, but he hated it, and bunnies live in warrens...) but they are more like a proper aunt and uncle to me.

 

[wyliefarms]

Here is my family:

My grandparents are grandpa and grandma _____(last name) both sides are this way. My kids call them this also, with out the great in front.

My Mom wanted different names for her and my dad. She worked a long time to get them to use the names she picked out.
My mom is Grammy
My dad is Papa

my brother has a step-son and he started calling them Grandma and Grandpa ____(last name)
So his younger siblings also call them that.
It is confusing to all the grandkids to a point. The great-grandparents have passed away so that part of the confusion is gone. I have heard them argue over what the proper name was to use to address them.

Now on my Husbands side, there was just his mom and a step-dad. So she was Grandma____(first name) and he wasn't anything in the kids life. Everyone just used his first name, since that is how Grandma addressed him. His grandkids called her Neenie, since they couldn't pronounce her name right.

 

[buck-wild-chick]

Nanny

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

Grammy and PopPop
Granny and Poppi

 

[baltimoreharps]

My side of the family:
My Mom: Me-Maw
My Dad (Died in '93) De-Dot. The oldest son started calling him that when he could talk, and we just picked it up.)
My step dad who has taken great care of my Mom after Dad went Home: Pawpaw Tony.

My dh's side:
His mom: Maw-maw
His dad: Paw-paw.

It must be a southern thing.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

You hit a nerve.

My grandmothers were both called "Grandmother," and my grandfathers were both "Granddaddy." This was pretty much universal from all the cousins. The terms grandma and grandpa were viewed as being rather crude. Obviously far from a universal sentiment, but that is how I was raised, and how I generally view these terms.

My mother goes by Grandmother, Grandmommie or Gram, all of which she likes. My older son called my grandmother "Greatmommie." My father goes by Granddaddy.

I always sign cards as "Grandmama," but the grandkids call me Grandma Scott.

I am personally dismayed that with the plethora of terms used to refer to grandparents, the card companies cannot seem to use anything other than grandma or grandpa.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I did have one uncle whose kids called him Pappy, and called our grandfather Papaw. Not sure what they would have called out grandmother--she passed away before I was born; the younger of my cousins is younger than me, and I never heard the older refer to her by name. He would have been pretty young when she died, so he may not remember.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

When we were small children we called my maternal grandmother "Muhr". All I can figure is it was a variation on the end of "grandmother". It stuck until my aunt started having kids. She thought it sounded tacky so her kids were only allowed to call her "Grandmother". We eventually switched to that as well.

My parents are Nana and Grandaddy. My brother's kids call my mom Nonna. Their mom is bilingual spanish and that's just how it comes out. Mom will pretty much answer to anything.

I have cousins with a Map and Pap. Others with a Big Mama and Big Papa. Another with a Mumsie (which I always thought was sweet).

Give me a minute and I'll come up with more. We southerners do love to mess around with names and nicknames.

 

[BarkerChickens]

I called my mom's parents Mema and PopPop. My great grandparents were Nana, Gram and Grampy.

My mom is called Nani (pronounced Non-ee). My in-laws are Mimi (like me-me) and Papa to the grandkids.