The child’s eye view of the World

I’m Granny Cakes. In the last week I’ve made the grandchildren:
A 21st birthday cake
A cake with a map of the British Isles for school
A fruit cake to send to one living away from home
Brownies for visitors on Mothering Sunday.

My eldest grandchildren aged 8 and 6 call my parents Jelly Baby Nana & Grandad ... my dad loves jelly babies and always has some!
My stepsons call their great grandma Grandma Duck as her surname was Drake

Our daughter as a toddler once asked are we going to Purple Grandma's today.That was what our DCs called her ever after.We could only think it was because my mum did wear a lot of purple /pink/mauve coloured clothes.DHs mum became Green grandma for reasons we couldn't fathom. She did have a very big garden and was often out in her wellies !

As a Big Granny, I'm so glad to hear that others have suffered this as well!
I was meant to be granny and dil's mum was going top be grandma. Grandsons called us both granny and as she's 5' nothing and I'm 5'6, she became Little Granny, so I'm the big one

These are so lovely my dds used to refer to nanny in heaven when my lovely
Mil died.

We are nana and grandpa and the other set are granny and grandad! Quite boring really

I'm abuelita Rose to my Mexican granddaughter,well I was when I had contact with her(don't ask) and am G'ma to my grandson,his other grandma is nanna,my son's dad is grandpa,mum's dad is papa P and my hubby is stretchypop Rog ( step G,pop)

When younger my GS referred to his paternal Nan as "Nanny Upstairs" ( she lived in a first floor flat ) and me as "Cooking Nanny" as I was usually in the kitchen getting a meal for us all when they arrived.

I'm Nan or Nanny Grapes for obvious reasons, my DM who is Great Granny is just known as Granny by both DD & DGSs. Last year at the age of 8 DGS1 decided he was too grown up to call me Nanny so Nan it is

If it’s just me I’m Nan, but if my mum is with us my 3yr old DGS calls her Great Big Nanny, and me Tiny Nanny. He must be referring to our ages as mums 4ft nothing and I’m 5’9”!

I used to be a nursery nurse and worked as a nanny for some years.

One of the families I worked for had three children who referred to their maternal grandmother as ‘Granny T’. I assumed it was her initial, but when she came to visit I realised it was because she drank copious amounts of TEA.

We had Nanny Kim, she had cat called that and Nanny Nell after her greyhound.

I am Nonna to my (5!) GC and my husband is Gramps. These were our choices. But one set call their paternal grandmother Grandmum and her second husband Don Julio because his name is Don and that is the name of a brand of tequila in Mexico where oldest GC was born!

Sadly due to bereavement, in our family we are the only grandparents our 2 grandchildren have known. So I’m just ‘grandma’ and try to be the best I can possibly be to make up in some small way for their loss.

The 2y old copies the 6y old grandson and she can say it well now - it’s magical hearing it.
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For completely different medical reasons, BOTH of my grandpas had had to have a leg removed... so when I was little I thought ALL grandpas only had one leg...

A friend is known to his DGC as SOFIC which stands for Silly Old Fool In th Corner. To be fair, I think it was he who decided on this.......

My parents-in-law, by their choice, are simply called by their first names by all of their grandchildren, but have relented with the great grandchildren and permit themselves to have granny and grandpa in front of their names.

Well, my son in laws mum decided long ago, with the older grand children from her oldest daughter, that she was ‘The best granny in the world’ which has stuck. And if you repeat something often enough, it becomes true!

I’m known by my first name, which I feel happy with - I don’t need (I tell myself fiercely) to compete with the Best Granny! ?

Loved the story from one granny on this thread that she and the other granny, granny frog, decided their names over a bottle of champagne ??

Our fathers were both called grandad which caused confusion so my husband’s father opted to be called grandpa. At the change over time our children kept asking which one we were discussing and if it was grandpa we told them it is your ‘grandpa grandad’. This name stuck and he remained hyphenated ‘grandpa- grandad’ until his untimely death at 58. Unfortunately other people often misheard and asked why he was called ‘grumpy’ grandad ?.

When the grandchildren were young my partner was referred to as "Nanny Mad".

How sweet

Going past the local cemetery with my then 3yr old GS, (he's now 17), he informed his mother and I that his 'Big Nanna', my mother, lived there now. When asked what she did there he replied - "She's playing with the dinosaurs". We still laugh over that today.
I just love how they think, and their imagination.

I am Ammah; the best effort at'Grandma' , which stuck. My mother was Nonna (Italian for grandma). My Mother's Day card this year had the line "Thank you for having Mummy". It's all so delightful isn't it?

I am Granny and the other one is Granny (name), but the children also refer to me as Granny Book. Because I've always encouraged them to read my daughter refers them to me if they start mithering for the latest book, so of course
I'm always buying them books. Last year the (now) six year old also referred to me as Granny With The Rules.

One of my dds who works for an aid agency has just gone to Mozambique to work for the massive relief effort.
Gdd, coming up to 4, was shown some footage of the disaster area, to help explain why Mummy needed to go away.

She concluded that someone should take the people to the shops, so they can buy food, after which they should all come and live at their house!

My eldest grandson, nearly 18 now, decided I was Granna when he was a little boy – and that's what the other five call me. He still calls me Granna and I rather like it.