I think that it’s cool he wants to be called G-Pa! My newphew call my parents Mom-mom and Pop-pop and my B-I-L’s parents Grammy and Papa. I always called my grandmother either mom-mom or grandmom but with my stepdad’s parents they prefered Nana and Pop. My mom used to call my great-grandmom, momma. Everyone has their prefernce which is cool.

My cousins always called my Nana ‘Nana Bubbles’ because her cat’s name was Bubbles.

I also know someone who’s grand children call her Boomby because her garage door makes a boom boom noise when it closes. I think it is very funny!

I was just reading this same article on People Magazine’s website, and they referred to Joel as Nicole’s “fiance’”. I’m confused, because I’m pretty sure they’re not engaged (Nicole even made it pretty clear that they don’t plan to get engaged or married all that soon in Harlow’s introduction article in People). Also, People seems to have done this totally out of the blue, as I think this is the first time they’ve ever said a word about Joel being Nicole’s fiance!

Perhaps they just forgot that they aren’t engaged, though? I can see where it would get hard to keep track after awhile!

my now 13 yr, old has always called my parents G-pa and G-ma.Thought grandma and grandpa made them sound old.

My husband’s parents are Mimi and Pop-pop. My parents are Grana and Grandude. We get lots of smiles, laughs and funny looks over Grandude, which was his choice of his name.

My son calls my dad a few different names “Dat” or “datty” or GoPa” for my mother he always calls her “Bon”. He’s so funny!

Friends of our’s started calling their kids’ grandpa G-Pa… I think it’s cute!!

How Cute!

My maternal grandparents are Papa and Nenah (pronounced knee-gnaw). Nenah was supposed to be Nana but my oldest cousin said it wrong and it stuck!

My dad was supposed to be Grampy but my nephew couldn’t pronounce it and called him Grumpy and that stuck. It’s cute and it fits my dad

My mom didn’t want to be Granny (as that was her g-mother, my great g-mother, and no one will ever replace her), and she didn’t want to be Grandmother and we already have a Mammaw. So my mom picked Nini (pronounced knee-knee) … it is kind of based off her mother’s name (Nenah)

My grandparents are Grandmother and Grandad…or as he writes it DOGD (dear old grandad). People are really surprised that we called my grandmother, Grandmother as it sounds so formal. She originally wanted to be called “Mother” because she didn’t want to be “old” sounding. It stuck for awhile, my 2 older cousins called her mother, but it changed with me. I once asked my mum if Mother was really my mother and she explained to me that she was really my grandmother, so Grandmother it was. It’s funny cause my older cousin still calls her Mother (as does my aunt) but my younger cousin, my brother and I call her Grandmother.

My mum had already made it be know that she is going to be called “Annie” as she doesn’t want to be a Grandma, Grannie, Nana, etc. With my cousin, who my mum is a surrogate grandmother (my aunt is raising him, as my cousin – his mum – passed away) she has gotten him to call her Annie and I love it. It fits her.

I hope that my mother in law is called by her first name or a version of it, “Cee Cee” would be nice because then they would be on the same page, grandparent wise.

My brothers’ kids each have four grandmothers – one maternal grandmother, one paternal grandmother, one paternal stepgrandmother, and the partner of their paternal grandmother. Each grandma got to pick what name she wants the kids to call her, but as the kids are learning to talk, they’re kind of picking their own names.