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If you were going to be a grandmother, what would you call yourself?

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MILTOBE · 15/12/2023 12:48

Just as the title says - if one of your children was having a baby, what would you want to be known as?

The only options I can come up with are:

Gran
Granny
Grandma
Nan
Nana
Nanny

Which would you choose, or would you choose something else?

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Manthide · 17/12/2023 00:54

I'm nanny and now my dd1 is expecting I hope her dc will also call me that. My mum is grandma and I used to call my grandma nana.

takemehomecountryroads · 17/12/2023 00:59

Nana

Manthide · 17/12/2023 01:20

NorthernLiner · 15/12/2023 14:19

Mine are only little still so I’m a long way off, but I quite like ‘Granny’.
My eldest called my MiL ‘Grandma’ and my FiL ‘Other Grandma’ 😆😂

It’s obviously become family lore now and an in joke, but very funny at the time.

My ds is 10/11 years younger than his 2 older sisters and he used to call them girl and girl2. I'm not sure if he changed them around depending on how he was feeling about them!

UncleHerbie · 17/12/2023 04:41

I’ll be Paddy (step grandmother). My husband’s late wife will be grandma. I will always honour her memory

jackieHP · 17/12/2023 06:50

I became a grandparent for the first time a few months ago. The other female grandparent was already called Nanny to another child. I really couldn’t decide what to be called, and in the end my daughter just started referring to me as Grandma so that’s what we went with. Once the baby arrives it actually doesn’t feel very important what they call you, it’s just wonderful to have them! Enjoy it whatever you decide upon.

Sandytoxic · 17/12/2023 06:52

I'm a meemaw :-)

Tara336 · 17/12/2023 06:55

Maybe Oma and Opa as Dutch heritage

Helar · 17/12/2023 06:59

“Granny”, because I loved my Granny, so it is a name that shines for me, full of love and warmth and humour and kindness and mischief and wisdom.

It will be an honour if I am one day entitled to bear that name and I hope to be able to live up to the beauty of it.

NameChange30 · 17/12/2023 07:43

Helar · 17/12/2023 06:59

“Granny”, because I loved my Granny, so it is a name that shines for me, full of love and warmth and humour and kindness and mischief and wisdom.

It will be an honour if I am one day entitled to bear that name and I hope to be able to live up to the beauty of it.

What beautiful words Smile

Baba197 · 17/12/2023 07:52

My mum is grandma but my son couldn’t say it when little so he called her baba and that’s stuck!

Roselilly36 · 17/12/2023 08:45

Nan or Nanny, can’t stand Grandma or Granny

MrsB74 · 17/12/2023 11:51

I became a Grandma (my step daughter’s DD) in my mid forties. Really don’t like Nanny/Nan/Nanna - I’m Scottish and we don’t generally use them.

OopsiDaysies · 17/12/2023 12:17

MILTOBE · 15/12/2023 13:12

No, I know it's up to the grandmother in question - that's me! All of the above seem so old!

I always think Gigi sounds quite cute/youthful.
My mum is Nan/nanny, as are/were all the grandmothers in my family.
Maybe regional as we are near Manchester though?

BettyBoops · 17/12/2023 13:28

My mum was Nanan

Lotus3 · 17/12/2023 18:00

My mother is a Nona.

MammyBear123 · 17/12/2023 19:04

My mum is Glam’ma because she’s far too glamorous to be a Grandmother, which is true… and she became and Grandmother at 50, 6 years and 4 grandchildren later everyone knows her as Glam’ma, even the teachers at School: Nursery

Ameteurmum · 17/12/2023 19:30

When I was a child I had “grandma” and “nanny surname”
my mum already had some grandchildren before I had mine and she and my dad have always been Nanny and Grandad first name as that’s what all the other grandkids call them. So my kids call them that and we referred to my husbands parents as just Nanny and Grandad but overtime the kids have changed it to nanny and grandad first name too. Sadly Grandma is no longer with us but they all called her Grandma too and my nieces and nephews called her Grandma first name

Crazyflumplady · 17/12/2023 23:36

It gets very confusing in my family when we're all together. My mum is Nanny, my sister is Nanny, and my Auntie is Nanny. When my grandson was born I decided I was not going going to be Nanny, I am YaYa. He knows exactly who people are talking about and which Grandmother to go to

Samlewis96 · 18/12/2023 06:54

Im either Nana ( gs) or Lita ( g d)

JackpotJoy · 18/12/2023 10:02

I’m 45 and my first grandchild was born in May. We had lost my own Nan in January so felt wrong to be Nan, and my mum is also Nan to my boys. So I’ve opted to be called Gigi until my granddaughter can decides 🤣.

Gem2345 · 18/12/2023 10:39

My children call my mum mamar. We have a great Nona and a great granny too.

Snowbear32 · 18/12/2023 11:53

I would probably be called Nan or Nanny as that is what I called my own grandparents.

My DH's family were really old fashioned, posh and weird, and his grandparents made their grandchildren call them by their first names. He often thought they didn't like children really which is quite sad.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 18/12/2023 12:04

MammyBear123 · 17/12/2023 19:04

My mum is Glam’ma because she’s far too glamorous to be a Grandmother, which is true… and she became and Grandmother at 50, 6 years and 4 grandchildren later everyone knows her as Glam’ma, even the teachers at School: Nursery

Wow!

But what's the big deal that some people have about being 'too young' to be a grandparent? If you're biologically old enough to have a child who themselves is old enough to have a baby, you are not too old to be a grandparent.

Depending on how your family life course goes, anybody over 36 (or even younger - I remember reading about a 27yo gran in a trashy mag years ago) is 'old enough to be a grandparent'.

You can be an active or 'fun' GP (getting on the climbing frame with the little ones!); or even feel not ready to become a GP (not that it's in your control, if you've already done the first of the two parts that it takes) - but it's just a simple, straightforward, neutral, non-judgmental material fact that you are NOT too young to be a GP.

Just like you can personally choose not to buy alcohol until you're 25, 35, 55 or never at all - but that doesn't change the fact that, once you turned 18, you WERE old enough to buy it.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 18/12/2023 12:04

Gem2345 · 18/12/2023 10:39

My children call my mum mamar. We have a great Nona and a great granny too.

East Midlands?!

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MILTOBE · 18/12/2023 12:26

I find the Glamma thing so embarrassing. I cringe for anyone who'd call themselves that.

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