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

I love these descriptions 😂 grand mum sounds amazing very cruella de ville.

Every child I know and knew (when I was a child myself) called their grandmother “Nan” though. Gran and granny just sounds so frail and ill

Brilliant!

I like gran, but grandmum sounds OK. Don't like grandma.

post of the day! 😁👏

I don't much like nanny/nanna but note that I have two titled friends who call their grandmother's nanna so I don't think it's universally un U.

You might want to wait and see what grandkids call you anyway, those are some of the best grandparent names!

Really? Why would your children insist on their children calling you something you, potentially, dislike.

And you have to be 'grateful' for grandchildren? Why? They didn't have children to please me.

My daughter, and my son and daughter in law asked me what I'd like to be called when they had children.

I really dislike the whole nanny, nana, nan, thing and would have hated it. Don't think that they would have chosen any of those, anyway.

Ah Mumsnet, the last true bastion of full-throated class-based snobbery and sneering disdain for working class people.

Always had nannies in my family and I am a nanny. Never liked grandma as we don't say "ma'. Gan Gan is surely one of those child invented names and just because it was used in the royal family doesn't make it inherently 'posh'. My Dad was known as Goggy by my nephew standing for grumpy old git (very unfair actually). To me Nana is very irritating as I would say it like banana with only one 'n'. Nanna is the dog in Peter Pan. Anyway I can see how Grandmum makes logical sense but it does sound pretentious and rather daft.

That’s a very good point, had never thought of that.

No one is teasing immigrant granny names.

Grandmum sounds weird.

Spoiler - by the time you have grandchildren you ARE old..

Might as well lean into it

Just hope you don't end up being the wrong one of "big gran" and "little gran"

I might go the whole hog and be called GrandMater.

My cousin was 38 😯

When I was a Beaver leader, the Beavers (aged about 6) would happily put me (at 50+) and another leader (late 20s) in the same age group..

We are all ancient to small kids..

my two boys call my MIL geegee (hard g) which i think is quite sweet. she's welsh and i think it's relatively common in some parts of Wales. My eldest heard it when we were there anyway and started using it :)

It’s the d. Gran-dad vs Grand-mum. Gran-mum be the equivalent. Same as Mapa vs Papa and reason they’re not widely used is cos they’re rubbish. As is Masonic Lodge sounding Grandmum.

But the late Queen wasn't his grandmother, she was his great-grandmother.

I’m just C8.

I think it sounds a bit pretentious and/or a bit over involved in wanting to have ‘mum’ in it. Though I suppose it’s a logical derivative of grandmother. Still sounds a bit odd though.

my mum is a Nana, it has never been shortened to Nan.

I second this, my mum is Nana. It's easy for young children to say, and doesn't sound old or silly. My great grandmother was also Nana and I'd always liked it so I suggested it to my mum.

My kids call me Muffsies (after a character from SpongeBob) so I'll probably just stay as that for the grandkids too.

My dad's mum was always nanna and my mum's mum was granny. It was a huge culture shock when my husbands family all called grandmothers "nanny (first name) regardless of wether they were maternal, paternal or great grandmothers.

I just gave my opinion, I’m not forcing it on anyone. She asked for opinions, so that’s what I gave. You don’t say what region you are, so I cannot comment on that aspect.

My eldest couldn’t pronounce Grandad until he was nearly 4. FIL was Gaga for a long time 😆

And the difference between my family and my ILs is that my parents would have insisted on sticking with the grandchild’s naming, Gaga, whereas DH, FIL and MIL made sure to always say Grandad.