Thought I would throw this out there and get some opinions.
I got off the phone last night with my parents. My mother is big on coming up with names for my new baby to call them when she gets older. She's come up with "MeMa" for herself, which I can deal with. My problem is that she said Dad wants to be called "Pa". I said whatever at the time then got to thinking about it. Isn't "Pa" another name for "father"? Isn't that why some are called "grandpa" (as in grandfather). I'm not sure I like this now. Am I blowing it out of porportion?
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Grandpa vs. Pa
I probably posted that in an ambien trance-soryy
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devist8me wrote: Thought I would throw this out there and get some opinions.
I got off the phone last night with my parents. My mother is big on coming up with names for my new baby to call them when she gets older. She's come up with "MeMa" for herself, which I can deal with. My problem is that she said Dad wants to be called "Pa". I said whatever at the time then got to thinking about it. Isn't "Pa" another name for "father"? Isn't that why some are called "grandpa" (as in grandfather). I'm not sure I like this now. Am I blowing it out of porportion?
Pa is very walton esk
maybe suggest Gramps hehehehe
I dunno pa is father in my opinion too.
My granny insisted when we were young that we call her Nonnie so that stuck till she died. She wanted that because it indicated to others when we were around that she may not be a grandma, as she was very worried about it making her sound old. Silly old bird failed to realize as a smoker her blood red lipstick bleeding up her smokers lip creases did the best job of showing off her age.
I got off the phone last night with my parents. My mother is big on coming up with names for my new baby to call them when she gets older. She's come up with "MeMa" for herself, which I can deal with. My problem is that she said Dad wants to be called "Pa". I said whatever at the time then got to thinking about it. Isn't "Pa" another name for "father"? Isn't that why some are called "grandpa" (as in grandfather). I'm not sure I like this now. Am I blowing it out of porportion?
Pa is very walton esk
maybe suggest Gramps hehehehe
I dunno pa is father in my opinion too.
My granny insisted when we were young that we call her Nonnie so that stuck till she died. She wanted that because it indicated to others when we were around that she may not be a grandma, as she was very worried about it making her sound old. Silly old bird failed to realize as a smoker her blood red lipstick bleeding up her smokers lip creases did the best job of showing off her age.
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Pa is fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
You know what...the little one is going to call her grandparents whatever she wants to call them. That is how most grandparents get named anyway...whatever the baby comes up with.
And I think if you are truly against "pa"...you should just whisper in your daughter's ear what you want her to call him...and not go through the process of telling "pa" he can't be called "pa"...that is just weird to me.
Good luck! I'll take whatever name I can get.
You know what...the little one is going to call her grandparents whatever she wants to call them. That is how most grandparents get named anyway...whatever the baby comes up with.
And I think if you are truly against "pa"...you should just whisper in your daughter's ear what you want her to call him...and not go through the process of telling "pa" he can't be called "pa"...that is just weird to me.
Good luck! I'll take whatever name I can get.
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And another thing...I think that dad just wanted "Pop"...but we already have a "Pop"...so "Pa" was just a shorter version of "Pop". Sorry...is this wanted in your thread? If not, sis, I apologize. 
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lol. My wife decided to teach my two grand-daughters to call me "Papa" (and she taught them to call her NaNa, go figure!)
Here's the problem.....my name is Jon. So now I'm "Papa Jon" Great. Just Great. Now my grand-daughters think I'm a pizza delivery guy.
Here's the problem.....my name is Jon. So now I'm "Papa Jon" Great. Just Great. Now my grand-daughters think I'm a pizza delivery guy.
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my grandparents on my father's side were greek (no kidding). the greek terms for grandmother/grandfather are yaya and papou, respectively. that's what i grew up calling them.
as a child, my parents were 'mommy and daddy'. that lasted way too long, and it wasn't until i was probably hitting my twenties that i started calling them 'mom and dad'! and even that was done in a facetious way - a 'Leave it to Beaver' lilt when saying it, "oh that's a lovely house dress Mrs. Cleaver" sort of a gambit.
My father always referred to his father has 'pa'. in the last year of his life, as he was being ravaged by alzheimer's then lung cancer, i started calling him pa. it was comforting to me, and for some reason it felt right - like it was in some ways reverential, an acknowledgement that he was very old, and that i respected him like he his own father. i don't know if he ever consciously 'heard' me calling him that, the dementia became very bad towards the end. but i still think of him as 'pa', even now that he's gone.
for some reason, although 'grandpa' is perhaps the more traditional 'pa' term for a grandfather, 'pa' also feels like it could be right for a grandfather. it's hard to describe - perhaps it feels that way because my father referred to his father always as pa, so in a way, that made him 'pa' to me too.
i think i'm not making any sense at this point. what was the question? :yh_silly
as a child, my parents were 'mommy and daddy'. that lasted way too long, and it wasn't until i was probably hitting my twenties that i started calling them 'mom and dad'! and even that was done in a facetious way - a 'Leave it to Beaver' lilt when saying it, "oh that's a lovely house dress Mrs. Cleaver" sort of a gambit.
My father always referred to his father has 'pa'. in the last year of his life, as he was being ravaged by alzheimer's then lung cancer, i started calling him pa. it was comforting to me, and for some reason it felt right - like it was in some ways reverential, an acknowledgement that he was very old, and that i respected him like he his own father. i don't know if he ever consciously 'heard' me calling him that, the dementia became very bad towards the end. but i still think of him as 'pa', even now that he's gone.
for some reason, although 'grandpa' is perhaps the more traditional 'pa' term for a grandfather, 'pa' also feels like it could be right for a grandfather. it's hard to describe - perhaps it feels that way because my father referred to his father always as pa, so in a way, that made him 'pa' to me too.
i think i'm not making any sense at this point. what was the question? :yh_silly
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hotsauce wrote:
You know what...the little one is going to call her grandparents whatever she wants to call them. That is how most grandparents get named anyway...whatever the baby comes up with.
What if the baby comes up with "hammer" and "cole slaw"??
Seriously though...My grandfather was grampa. His wife was granny. Granny was never anything but granny. I now talk to my grampa a lot more since granny is gone, and have taken to calling him "Gramps." He seems to get a kick out of it. So even if there is something "assigned" it could change.
You know what...the little one is going to call her grandparents whatever she wants to call them. That is how most grandparents get named anyway...whatever the baby comes up with.
What if the baby comes up with "hammer" and "cole slaw"??
Seriously though...My grandfather was grampa. His wife was granny. Granny was never anything but granny. I now talk to my grampa a lot more since granny is gone, and have taken to calling him "Gramps." He seems to get a kick out of it. So even if there is something "assigned" it could change.
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Jives wrote: lol. My wife decided to teach my two grand-daughters to call me "Papa" (and she taught them to call her NaNa, go figure!)
Here's the problem.....my name is Jon. So now I'm "Papa Jon" Great. Just Great. Now my grand-daughters think I'm a pizza delivery guy.
We called my mom's parents Nano and Pap, so close. She told me that I came up with those names as a baby and they stuck.
I love Papa Jon......thats hysterical!!!
Here's the problem.....my name is Jon. So now I'm "Papa Jon" Great. Just Great. Now my grand-daughters think I'm a pizza delivery guy.
We called my mom's parents Nano and Pap, so close. She told me that I came up with those names as a baby and they stuck.
I love Papa Jon......thats hysterical!!!
I probably posted that in an ambien trance-soryy
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You crack me up.
I probably posted that in an ambien trance-soryy
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yes, papa Jon made me laugh out-loud!
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I thought this thread was about Grandpa vs. Pennsylvania! :rolleyes:
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Jives wrote: lol. My wife decided to teach my two grand-daughters to call me "Papa" (and she taught them to call her NaNa, go figure!)
Here's the problem.....my name is Jon. So now I'm "Papa Jon" Great. Just Great. Now my grand-daughters think I'm a pizza delivery guy.LOL, Jives, when I read "Papa Jon" I thought of Papa John Creach!!
Seems MUCH more fitting for you!! (Than a pizza delivery guy!!)
My grandfathers, sad to say, both died before I was born. I would have
called them "Grampa" and I called/refer to my grandmothers as "Gramma".
I think the kids should call them whatever feels right, let that be "Pa" it's
really no skin off your nose is it?!?!?
Here's the problem.....my name is Jon. So now I'm "Papa Jon" Great. Just Great. Now my grand-daughters think I'm a pizza delivery guy.
LOL, Jives, when I read "Papa Jon" I thought of Papa John Creach!!Seems MUCH more fitting for you!! (Than a pizza delivery guy!!)
My grandfathers, sad to say, both died before I was born. I would have
called them "Grampa" and I called/refer to my grandmothers as "Gramma".
I think the kids should call them whatever feels right, let that be "Pa" it's
really no skin off your nose is it?!?!?
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Our youngest son called my mother MOM for the longest time (I was mommy) and I think it was because that was what I called her. Kids DO have a way of choosing their names for ther loved ones.
Pa for Grandpa is almost common. If two sets of Grandparents live close, the kids have to have a way of distinguishing them from each other, so one set becomes Nana and Papa and the other Grandma and Grandpa,(Or whatever)
Don't let it bother you. Mymother-in-law didn't want to be called Grandma, so my kids called her Carol until they were grown, and THEN they started calling her Granny...go figure! and she accepted it from her adult grandchildren! :rolleyes:
Pa for Grandpa is almost common. If two sets of Grandparents live close, the kids have to have a way of distinguishing them from each other, so one set becomes Nana and Papa and the other Grandma and Grandpa,(Or whatever)
Don't let it bother you. Mymother-in-law didn't want to be called Grandma, so my kids called her Carol until they were grown, and THEN they started calling her Granny...go figure! and she accepted it from her adult grandchildren! :rolleyes:
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hotsauce wrote: You know what...the little one is going to call her grandparents whatever she wants to call them. That is how most grandparents get named anyway...whatever the baby comes up with.
This is true!! I mean.. you can try to influence what she calls them by letting her hear how you refer to him as. If you always say.. "say hI to Grandpa".. etc.. she will likely associate that name with him, etc. But ultimately.. she will make the decision on what they are called.. LOL
My parents were "gram" and "grampa"... and that is what we all referred to them as.. while Madelyn was little. So she KNEW them by those names... BUT when she started talking... she chose to call my dad "papa".. rather than "grampa".. and it just stuck. Now at the time.. that was NOT a name I would have ever suggested.. however It sounded so darn cute coming from her -- no one seemed to mind.. and it was/is extra special cuz SHE "named" him all by herself. Now I just love to hear both my kids call for their PAPA!
Similiar situation with my in-laws. They wanted to be known as.. and are known to all the grandkids as "grammy" and "grampy"... BUT once again... Madelyn put her own twist on it. She is the only one out of 3 other grandkids to call my father-in-law "pappy" rather than "grampy". Now that she is older.. she will sometimes call him Grampy.. but she mostly still uses "Pappy". My sisters-in-law used to "yell" at her when she was so little for calling him that.. trying to ENFORCE "grampy"... until John and I YELLED back that she wasn't wrong for calling him what she did.. and she could call him whatever the heck she wanted -- it was her special name for him.. and that shut them up pretty quick. (he-hee)
My mom, however, is very anal about the whole name thing. She wants to always be called "Gram" and only "Gram". Ben has been calling her what sounds like "Gaum"... and she was fine with that cuz he just isn't saying it right yet. But the other day, he called her "Gaumma" she flipped.. yelling "NO.. NO Ben... I'm GRAM!!" over and over. The poor kid thought he did something wrong. Ugh! That ticked me off a bit -- I told her to let him call her whatever he wants!!
So while it may not be the "ideal" nickname you were hoping for... you're little one may come up with a name of her own that will melt your hearts... becuz it came from her little heart!! It'll be her own term of endearment.. and you'll find you love it no matter what it ends up being!! :-4
This is true!! I mean.. you can try to influence what she calls them by letting her hear how you refer to him as. If you always say.. "say hI to Grandpa".. etc.. she will likely associate that name with him, etc. But ultimately.. she will make the decision on what they are called.. LOL
My parents were "gram" and "grampa"... and that is what we all referred to them as.. while Madelyn was little. So she KNEW them by those names... BUT when she started talking... she chose to call my dad "papa".. rather than "grampa".. and it just stuck. Now at the time.. that was NOT a name I would have ever suggested.. however It sounded so darn cute coming from her -- no one seemed to mind.. and it was/is extra special cuz SHE "named" him all by herself. Now I just love to hear both my kids call for their PAPA!
Similiar situation with my in-laws. They wanted to be known as.. and are known to all the grandkids as "grammy" and "grampy"... BUT once again... Madelyn put her own twist on it. She is the only one out of 3 other grandkids to call my father-in-law "pappy" rather than "grampy". Now that she is older.. she will sometimes call him Grampy.. but she mostly still uses "Pappy". My sisters-in-law used to "yell" at her when she was so little for calling him that.. trying to ENFORCE "grampy"... until John and I YELLED back that she wasn't wrong for calling him what she did.. and she could call him whatever the heck she wanted -- it was her special name for him.. and that shut them up pretty quick. (he-hee)
My mom, however, is very anal about the whole name thing. She wants to always be called "Gram" and only "Gram". Ben has been calling her what sounds like "Gaum"... and she was fine with that cuz he just isn't saying it right yet. But the other day, he called her "Gaumma" she flipped.. yelling "NO.. NO Ben... I'm GRAM!!" over and over. The poor kid thought he did something wrong. Ugh! That ticked me off a bit -- I told her to let him call her whatever he wants!!
So while it may not be the "ideal" nickname you were hoping for... you're little one may come up with a name of her own that will melt your hearts... becuz it came from her little heart!! It'll be her own term of endearment.. and you'll find you love it no matter what it ends up being!! :-4
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Typically, kids have two grandfathers and two grandfathers. We just call them Grampa Bill, Grampa Roger, Gramma (too many syllables) and Gramma Rose. Usually only the women care about sounding old in which case it becomes 'Nanna'.