to think Grandma Daddy is just odd

[Annya]

or perhaps there are loads of them out there? A friend has decided her daughter will call her grandparents (and there are 4, to be fair) Grandma Mummy (for the Mum's mum), Grandma Daddy (for the Dad's Mum) and Grandma Firstname and Grandma Firstname for two "step" Grannies.

I would hate to be called Grandma Daddy by any grandchild of mine. What is wrong with just using other names like Nan or Nana or whatever?

Oops, didn´t finish the changes properly

If they want "Grandma Firstname" for the step GMs, couldn´t the others just be Gran/Granny/Nanny/Nan/Nana without first name?

My mother in law has issues with being a grandma - makes her feel old etc.

I told her she could choose what she wanted to be called and the next time we saw her she announced she wanted to be called Mama - needless to say this was vetoed!

The kids will sort it out themselves. They'll probably call them all granny or grandad anyway.

How strange, I suppose the children will just choose names for them as they get older though.

We have 'grandma and grandad John (step-dad) in London' and then just 'grandma and grandad'

If it works, great. As has been said I've no doubt that the DC will choose their own names for their GPs as time goes by.

My best friend's family had an unusual but rather nice way of doing it. There was Nan and Grandad and Granny and Tom Father. Tom Father was the father of my best pal's own dad. He gained his nickname years before my BF was born because his elder son was called Tom as well and it stayed with him for life.

I thought it was very odd, and a bit controlling. But my friend, altho very lovely, is a bit controlling and has a tendency to overthink everything to do with her daughter, in my opinion.

But it probably was an attempt to distinguish between "real" grandparents and "step". I

I don't think the respective Grandmas have had any say or input in what they were called.

we've already worked this out for the day when we have smalls because both DH's parents are remarried and so are his surviving grandparents, plus it's all a bit aggro, so his side of the family is a minefield.

My parents will be Granny and Grumpy (because, let's face it, he is)

His dad and stepmum (who is more like a mum to him) will be Grandad and Grandma.

His mother and stepfather will be Nanny HerFirstName and Grandad HisFirstName

And the great grandparents have yet to be named as they probably won't have that much contact due to geography.

And 'bent' isn't necessarily a derogatory term. Some of my gay friends describe themselves that way :-)

Actually - littlemad calls his great grandma
'grandma Curtain' he's misheard he actual name and it was so funny I never corrected him

I was coming on here to contribute the Scandinavian suggestion but see Zoo has already done it. I will instead offer Grandad Shed, who spent a lot of time there.

We have Grandma & Grandad twice over. DS sees my parents often but inlaws live in Morecambe and we don't see them very often. So they are often referred to as Grandma & Grandad Morecambe

when we were little we had Grandma (first name) and Grandma surname - no to their faces though, just to distinguish when talking!

Grandma daddy is just odd!

Oh and my Grandma that is left now is referred to my DS as Grandma even now!

I don't think it is anything to worry about, the DCs will sort it out for themselves and they won't use such a mouthful. You can get away with anything as babies but not once they talk!

We have Grandma Spain and Grandad Thailand Sounds a bit weird now, but made sense at the time.

Although Grandma Spain died a couple of years ago having seen her grandchildren maybe twice, and having shown no interest whatsoever in them, and we're not entirely where Grandad Thailand is as he moves about a bit, so could be Grandad Hong-Kong or Grandad Laos (but they never stuck) and isn't exactly arch-communicator.

Ah well.

We only had one grandad, so that was easy.

Grandmas were Nanny Jones and Nanny slightlylesscommonsurnamesonotputtingithere.

DD has Nana and Grandad, and Oma and Opa. Very easy!

On one side we had Nana (her last name) and Grandpa. On the other side we had Nana (her last name) and Grandad.

My kids have Grandma and Grandpa on their dad's side, and Nana on mine. My mum and my ex-in laws chose what they wanted the children to call them, and as far as I know, so did my grandparents when I was a child.

I have step grandchildren
Their actual grandparents are called by the name of their choice.
I am called by the name of my choice......Julie
I have no intention of being called Grandma/Granny/Nanny/Nan.

I completely fail to see that just because I am of a certain age and have grandchildren whom I adore, why would anyone disrespect me and call me a name that I don't like?

The children and I have it sorted anyway.
I was once introduced at a Princess Party by "Princess Aurora, I would like you to meet my Julie"

That little one has asked that I introduce her as my grandaughter.....so I do. My other step Grandchild doesn't want me to do that. So I don't. I respect their wishes and they respect mine.

I learned quickly from my stepson, when he ws small that it doesn't matter what someone is called, as long as the child knows they are loved.

When I was little I had gran and nanna.
When DD1 was born MIL insisted on her being granma Julie so as not to confuse her with my mum, Granma. Her mum was then Granma Molly. There was no need you just tell them we are going to see granma?grandad and if they ask which one you say mummy's or daddy's.
Kids really aren't that stupid so why do we need to make things complicated. I suspect it goes down to present giving so granny X can be sure the child knows she spent the most

YANBU but she's being weird.

Traditionally kids have 4 grandparents anyway- perhaps called Grandma Jones and Grandad Jones on Mums side and Grandma Brown and Grandad Brown on the Dads (insert own last names as appropriate).

Having more than one Grandad is not some wild new phenomenon, it is to be expected in even the lest complicated famillies!

Obviously in complex modern families then going by last name isn't always the simplest thing to do, so most people have Grandma Helen or Grandad Fred or even Grandma Helens boyfriend Fred.

It wasn't a system that needed an update IMO. Even if it had needed an update "Granma Mummy/ Grandma Daddy" is just weird and will provoke funny looks. Why do that?

Seems a bit odd. My DD calls my mum Nana and her dad's mum Babcia (Polish for Nana.) She calls my dad Grandad 'Tache because he has a moustache!

We've got a Grandma Reindeer - my oldest ds misheard me when he was very small and I refered to dh's mum as Grandma . 9 years on and the other kids have picked up on it. Grandma Reindeer loves it!

I seem to remember a children's book which had Mumsmum, Mumsdad, Dadsmum and Dadsdad as the name of the grandparents. I suspect despite her intentions anything that starts with Grandma will become just Grandma

Has anyone pointed out that people overhearing someone being called "Grandma Daddy" are going to think someone's had a sex change!

we have Nanny and Grampy on one side and Grandma and grandad on the other

no confusion at all :-)