LO can't talk yet but my parents are "mema" and "papa", and DH's parents are just grandma and grandpa for now, unless she comes up with something later on.
What does/will your LO call their grandparents?
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Nan and Granddad (my parents) and Nanny and Granddad (DH's parents).
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My parents are gramma and grandpa to my niece so that's what they'll be to LO once she arrives too. My in laws don't have grand kids yet so we are not entirely sure how that's going to go. I think they want to be nana and papa.
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My parents are grandma and grandpa. Dh's parents are grammy and grandpa
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My parents are Nonni and Poppi, Italian names. Thy picked them once my nephew was born. DHs nephew started calling FIL, Poopa, not sure why. So he is that and his wife (StepMIL) is Lili, based in her name.
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Farmor, farfar, and mormor, Swedish for father's mother, father's father and mother's mother. We call my grandma (my mom's mom) Lola sa tuhod, Tagalog for great-grandma. My mom originally wanted to be called, Apong, which means grandparent in Ilocano, but it's a little too hard to say and I never use it cause it's the first I heard of it. The term I know is Lola, but she refuses to use it cause she says it makes her seem old.
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The first grandkid already picked out their names and they've stuck. It seems you can pick out what you would like to be called, but the child is likely to come up with something on her own.
My parents wanted to be grandma and grandad. They are now granny and poppa. Whatever the first grandkid calls them sticks, it seems.
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@Happygal: Not in my family. I couldn't pronounce my grandmsther's name and I was the 3rd grandchild, arriving 10 years after the first. My cousins called her ma-ma and I called her grandma. For the life of me I couldn't say ma-ma or even mama until I was practically outb of HS.
This thread is so interesting because what we call our grandparents really let's or cultural and regional differences shine.
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: yes to the regional differences! Actually, my mom is more likely to be called nanny or nan. But we had never heard some of the southern names before we moved here, like MeeMaw or PaPaw.
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@Happygal: yeah my nephew was the first born grandson on my side so that's how my parents got their "names", every kid has called them that but maybe LO will decide something else
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Dhs parents are nanny and poppy. My parents are supposed to be grandma and grandpa..... But lo calls them mama and papa.
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@Happygal: I agree with both points, except, that with my MIL my son calls her exactly what she didn't want to be called 10 years ago when the first grandkid was born...so it just goes to show you, you have no control!
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Nana & Pop / Gran & Grandpa... Not very original. One of my friends kids calls their grandmas Sugar and another Coco... Pretty cute
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MIL: mama
FIL: yehyeh
My mom: halmonee (but LO can't really say it yet)
My dad: harabuhjee (ditto)It's just "grandma" and "grandpa" in Cantonese and Korean
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DH's parents will be Lolo and Lola. My folks...I dunno! To my brother's daughter they are Pop and Granny-Jo. I don't like "Granny-Jo", so maybe for us Pop and Gran, or Gram? I dunno, it's weird to think of my mom as a grandmother, even though she already is one!
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MIL: mama (cantonese)
FIL: yehyeh (cantonese)Korean would be: halmuhni, harabuhji
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My inlaws are Grandma and Grandpa. My parents are Nana and Poppops.
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My parents will be Oma and Opa (Dutch and German) and my FIL will be Grandpa.
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LO will call both sets of grandparents "grandma/grandpa" in their native tongue so Cantonese and Khmer.
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Grandma and Grandpa on both sides.
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DH's parents are grandma and grandpa to the seven grandchildren they already have, so they'll be the same for our child.
My dad and stepmum will be nana and papa.
My mum can't decide what she wants to be called.
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My parents are gong gong and po po (grandfather and grandmother in Cantonese). My in-law's are pop pop and grandma. I thought they would want to be ong and ba (Vietnamese) though.
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mom & MIL: grandma
dad: papa
FIL: grandpa -
Oma and Grandpa <name>; Grandmother and Papa
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Our LO will call my mom Nana (because all the other grandkids do) and my husband's parents "Amama" and "Apapa", which is grandmother and grandad in their languge.
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My ILs will be Nana and Pops, my dad and stepmom will be Grandpa Jon and Grandma Connie and my mom is still thinking of what she wants to be called so right now she's Grandma K (for Katie).
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