To think it’s not weird to call yourself grand mum

[SummerSpringWater]

That what I want to be calls when I’m a grandparent
don’t wanna be called nanny which then turns into nan !
don’t wanna be called grandma sounds oddly formal and a bit stiff

gangan too posh

blokes get all the good names like grandad and pops etc

Granny
Gran

Do you? We chose it for ours eg, one grandma and other Nanna. No way was I having any nicknames, esp those that sound like a substitute mother. Conveniently MIL wanted to be the same as dm as soon as found out, despite always wanting the opposite so needless to say that this request was not granted.

It's weird if you define weird as being not the norm.
Suppose it's no one's business if the family is happy, but all the cards etc tend to have Gran/ny/ma on Nan/ny.
Why not Gran, if you think grandma is too posh?

One of my closes friends wanted gran .. the kids call her lolli , well they're late teens now but for some reason that's what they called her.

No, she was English born and bred, and used "Momar." She told me she made it up and that's what the gc called her. She showed me videos of her gc and she was saying it in n the background.😯I don't think that could have landed well with dil.

I’m Grandma and I like it that way 🥰

I only know it from Amandaland. Joanna Lumley is Gan gan. So I suppose that's posh!

In our family it's nanny while they're young enough for mummy/daddy, becoming nan at around the time they start saying mum and dad.
And when being spoken of, 'me nan' because we're not very posh at all.

My mum always hated granny or nanny even before she was a grandparent . Luckily for her my bro in law is Danish and him and my sister had kids before me so went with mormor ( mothers mother ) which she loves so my kids call her that as well . My mother in law is nanny and my sisters danish mother in law is farmor ( fathers mother ) .

You chose the names your parents/in laws will be called - and they just had to go along with it? Did you change their first names whilst you were at it?

Get a grip. I genuinely don't understand why so many people get so worked up over what their grandchildren are going to call them.

It feels like vanity more than anything else.

The important thing is that you're lucky enough to have grandchildren in your life. Plenty of people would love to be in that position.

And honestly, I'd let the child (or their parents) decide what comes naturally. Half the time these names evolve on their own anyway. They'll remember the love, the time you spent with them and how you made them feel, not whether you were called Grandma, Nanna, Gran or anything else.

Hoping my grandkids will call me Ouma, like I called my South African grandmother. I also had an Iranian grandmother who we called Daadijaan. So never had a nanny/grandma. My kids called my MiL ‘Nanny’ though, and her mum was Great Nan.

Are you the mother of the dad?

Grandmum sounds like a slightly crazed mil with form for trying to relive parenting and wanting to be as close to mum as possible in their title.

My mil is granny and she's a very young seeming granny and I was sure she'd want a younger sounding title but she was so excited to be granny and embrace all that granny means to her from her granny to her mum when she was th granny. My mil drivea me barmy but she's the very essence of granny.

My mum is dead but was Nanny simply because her first grandchild was my brother's step daughter and she already had a granny and a grandma so my mum beck e became nanny. She never met my children sadly but I'd have loved them to have a nanny and a granny.

Anyway I'd laugh at least internally at someone requesting grandmum because more ordinary titles are too common for them.

I like Gigi, do you pronounce it gee-gee or like the french name?

You can be called anything you like - it's nobody else's business. However I'm surprised you haven't considered Granny, which to me is the default, the most obvious choice of all.

My mum wanted to be grand mum. It didn’t really stick though and she’s nanna

My sister and SIL had babies before I did and both sets of grandparents had already been allocated their names so we went along with those. It would have been odd for young cousins to use different ones when referring to their communal grandparents.

You're wrong. It is. Don't do it. Your grandchild(ren) will not thank you for it.

I'm a Nana. My Grandson's other Grandma is Nanny & Step Grandma is Grams.

None of this matters that much surely. Is another thing for people to get precious and het up over.

Grandmum is a bit hard to say. You could go for gran-mum. Quite frankly if grandad is allowed so should grandmum.

I want to be granny then name.

Christ don’t

My Granny changed her title from Granny to Nanny when I was 6. It was werid. So pick something you'll stick with! An aunt wanted desperately to be Oma, despite no German links. That didn't stick and shes accepted Granma now.
Granum? Less awkward than Grandmum.

I think the more unusual terms generally emerge naturally, eg from a child's mispronunciation of Granny or Grandma.

my grandparents started one as Mamgu and Tadcu which is very normal in Wales, but my brother never got the hang of which was which grandparent so started referring to them both as tadcu, over time this evolved into my grandmother being tad and my grandfather being gu. So essentially we called my grandmother ‘dad’ and my grandfather ‘grand’. 😂🤷‍♂️