New name as Grandma
By Denise
@petatonicsca (7070)
Japan
June 28, 2020 6:09am CST
As I have been doing all quarantine, I virtually have dinner with my family on Sunday night. The oldest granddaughter will turn 5 on Tuesday. She is really a big girl now, and very affectionate. The little one, who will be 3 in August, is starting to speak sentences that we can understand. She has been calling me Papa or Anpan (Grandma sound like Anpanman, a cartoon charater) and today she called me Nana. I said that was fine, lots of people call their grandma Nana. Her mother said, "Did you hear that? You can call her Nana." The five-year-old really liked that idea. Then the little one said "nene" (Japanese for "big sister") and I said, "Now you have Mama, Papa, Nene, Nana, Jiji and Baba" (the other grandparent). They all laughed at that!
Do you have a special name for grandparents or do your grandkids have a special name for you?
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@rebelann (117248)
• El Paso, Texas
29 Jun 20
I met all my grandparents when I was very little but with dad being in the Army we didn't live close enough to any of them to actually get to know them or anyone else in my parents families @petatonicsca
@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
29 Jun 20
Three out of four of my grandparents were gone by the time I was old enough to know them, and the fourth was "grandpa." I did not experience the whole "grandparent/grandchild" scenario when I was little (or cousins, or anything) so I have trouble knowing how to navigate this!
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@Lavanya15 (12888)
• Chennai, India
28 Jun 20
Those names really cool. But still now I don't have any special names for me. But my kid call me some times mamma, not mom.
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@m_audrey6788 (58468)
• Germany
28 Jun 20
That`s so cute. I just simply call my grand mother, ``grandma`` or ``lola`` (Philippine language) 
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@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
29 Jun 20
I always thought of Poppa as father, but I know some use it as Grandfather.
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@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
29 Jun 20
I don't but my grandkids adore Anpanman! He is Japanese, you know, and they are also Japanese.
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
29 Jun 20
Anpan 
- I am laughing so hard as I know what anpan is! My parents do not like the names Jiji and Baba . . . they always that was rude . . . and for themselves they did not want Baa-chan or Jii-chan because they thought that made them sound old 
. They are called the standard English/American Grandma and Grandpa .
- I am laughing so hard as I know what anpan is! My parents do not like the names Jiji and Baba . . . they always that was rude . . . and for themselves they did not want Baa-chan or Jii-chan because they thought that made them sound old . They are called the standard English/American Grandma and Grandpa .
