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  • Grandad

    8 26.67%
  • Granpa

    4 13.33%
  • Grandfather

    1 3.33%
  • Gramps

    0 0%
  • Grumps

    2 6.67%
  • Pop

    5 16.67%
  • Poppy

    2 6.67%
  • Other - please enlighten us

    8 26.67%
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    Default What do your Grandkids call you

    What do your Grandkids call you

    or alternatively

    What do you call your Grandparents
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    Quote Originally Posted by echnidna
    What do your Grandkids call you

    or alternatively

    What do you call your Grandparents
    i call my grandparents grandad and granma
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    Well not old enough to have grandkids (Though my sister has), and all of my grandparents have died..

    but my kids call my parents grandma and grandpa, and SHMBO's parents are OMA and OPA to respect their dutch heritage.
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    It goes something like "Eeee! [burble] [fart]" and I presume it means "that odd hairy coot who keeps annoying me."

    Our grands' were called "Grandma & Grandad" on one side and "Nan & Pop" on the other. Saved confusion. The women-folk were named first, 'cos they're the ones who fed us... their other halves just chased us outta their sheds while turning the air blue.
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    I called both sets Grandma & Grandad. My kids call SWMBO's parents Nana & Pa, and used to call my mother Grandma and my stepfather Pa Haemorrhoid (very perceptive children i have!)
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    Unfortunately, I have always called mine dead.

    My kids call their's - Grandad and Granma. My nieces, who live with my Mum, call her "Margy' . She is named Margaret.

    We all call my father that old fu&%#&^ bas&^5787 &*&(*%$^$%.
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    My son has just started talking and has done well with Mum (which is easier to say that SWMBO, but means the same) and Daddy (which means the guy with the wallet who fixes stuff I bust), but has been having trouble with SWMBO's parents' names - all the other grandkids call them Grandmother and Grandfather. My son has decided that this is too hard - he has turned Grandmother into "Diana" (strange since her name is Margaret) and has decided to call Grandfather "Huff Huff". My mother is Nonna (my sister and I called her mother Nanna, so it was a natural development when my sister decided to marry an Italian and live in Italy) and my Dad is no more, so the issue doesn't arise for him.

    All of which shows that kids will take perfectly reasonable names and bugger them up......

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    Hope to be some time off from being a grandparent. When mine were alive, I called them Grandpa, Grandma, and Nanna. The other one died before I was born. I presume he would have been a Pop. They are all gone now and my biggest regret is that when my Grandpa was on his death bed in hospital (prostate cancer) and asked to see me, I was too chicken to go. I was 16.
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    Well my grandys where Grandma and grandpa and Grandad and Nanna
    my kids have a nanny and Poppy ( my dad died a few yrs ago
    my gran was Special Grandma to my kids and her other grandys and my aunti is Granny and my uncle granddad ..... ... but hey my kids asked me what i wante dto be called the other day when they have kids and i said nothing im too young hehehhe cheers all jules

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    My nephews caller their english grandfather "hiyah" as he always said hi yah when saw anyone.
    And a good friends kids called their two grandmothers "up granma" and "up up granma" reason being one lived in a first floor apartment and the other in a second floor unit, and though they are both in their late 20's they still call them up and up up, funny how the names kids give you stick.


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    We keep dropping hints to the kids about how much we would like to be grandparents but this, so far, has had no tangible result . We've decided we will be Nana and Grandad when the issue arises.

    My mum told me a great story last week. She is 94, by the way. She had been to see my brother's son and his family. Their youngest is three years old and hadn't previously met Mum, who is, of course, the little fella's great-grandmother. She was explaining to him, with difficulty, that being Great-Granny means that she is Grandad's Mum.

    The little bloke was incredulous: "You're Grandad's Mum?"

    "That's right, love. I'm your Grandad's Mummy."

    "So why," said the young bloke. "Does he look older than you?"

    (My brother is 71 and wasn't best pleased when Mum gleefully advised him of his grandson's opinion).
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    When I was a kid my sister and I called our grandparents on my mothers side Grandma in Heaven (she died before I was born) and Grandpa Whiskers (he had a beard). On my dad's side we just called them Grandma and Grandpa.

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    My son usually calls me 'Dad', but on occasion used "Pa" - now his daughter calls me "justpa".
    She was earlier confused and called me "Dad" and when corrected was told :
    'No. It's just Pa'

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    My grandkids have a name for me which sounds remarkably like "grumpy old bastard".

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