Society & Culture

Who names a grandparent?

Society & Culture

Posted by: Hillicent

21st Nov 2011 08:00pm

News of the grandchild's birth was barely out before people started asking what I wanted to be called. I thought the first grandchild named the grandparents, but my friends don't agree. They think I need to choose. Must say I'm in no hurry to be known by a different name.

What do you think? Who decided on grandparents' names in your family?
And what are you called?

yecats
  • 22nd Dec 2011 08:36am

We've just had our first child and we asked the grandparents what they wanted to be known as once he was born. This way as he grows and learns he will associate their "name" with the face/person. When we talk to him, we talk about my parents and my husbands parents, and when they come over, we ask him if he wants to go to Grandad or Nana or does he have smiles for Grandma etc, just like we refer to ourselves as Mummy and Daddy.


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