Are you a Grandmother or Grandfather?

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My daughter and I were talking a few days ago about what some grandmothers liked to be called by their grandchildren. Her grandchildren call her Nana and her husband they call Poppy. They call me Mamaw and my husband Papaw. Most grandmothers choose what they want to be called and it’s usually not Grandma or Granny, nowadays. She said that the “boomer” generation wanted their grandmother name to be fun, cool, inventive or at the very least, not frumpy. I had to laugh at that. Unfortunately, I did not know either of my grandmothers. My mother’s mother died when my mother was only ten years old. My father’s mother died when I was a baby. My daughter said that she read somewhere that Susan Sarandon, a well-known actress, here in the USA, wants her new granddaughter to call her Honey. She said her hairstylist told her that it’s a Southern thing. Another actress, Blythe Danner, who is grandmother to Gwyneth Paltrow’s children, goes by the name of Lalo. Goldie Hawn has been called Glam-ma and Gogo, by her grandchildren. Many others want to be called a variety of names from Granna, Grammy, Nani, Nana, Bobo, G-Ma, Gee Bee, Mimi, Meema, MorMor to MyTina. Some grandmothers want their grandchildren to call them by their first name. If you are a grandmother, what do your grandchildren call you? And if you are a grandfather, what do your grandchildren call you?