Terms of endearment for grandchildren?

We use diminutives of their names or words like pet or sweetie or love but then again we are Northern and proud of it!

Darling for my 14 year old granddaughter, Sweet Pea for my 11 year old granddaughter and Lamb Chop for my 7 year old grandson - they all seem very happy with this - for the time being!!!!!

The other day I called my 3 year old GS 'Sugar Plum', which was met with a look of great disdain and to be told he 'is not a plum'! I usually call both my GS's pet or sweetheart, but then, I am from the North!

First name or darling for elder DGD. The younger seems to permanently attached to mum at the moment via a sling!

Don't do what I did. Granny's Best Boy was fine until another one turned up. Then it had to be Granny's Best Big Boy and Granny's Best Little Boy.....then it gets increasingly complicated.

Darling, sweetheart, love...interchangeably.

My eldest GD was always called "Jodiepoo" by me, for very obvious reasons....... she's 28yrs old now and I still sometimes make mention of it in personal cards. She doesn't mind.

Am I really the only person who insults their grandchildren? Maybe I would n't do it with a girl.

I can't imagine my two wanting to be called anything endearing!

You can do both, *jingl8, depending on the circumstances. And I do.

I use insulting names for two of mine, on a bad day. Too insulting to repeat really.

11 year old girl is Sweetpea 13 year old boy is Pumpkin my other grandkids that live away are their names or pet or darling

I used to call DGS grannies little lambkin when he was tiny, now he is 8, so I call him darling or sweetheart. DGD1 , I call proper little madam, & DGD2 is called pickle, as even at 18 months , is mischievous, just like DS was when little.

Newest DGS is Pipsqueak. But I think he'll probably grow out of that.

my granddaughter is called sugarlugs as I keep pretending im going to eat her sweet little ears

Thought I'd revive this a little due to my newest GD. I was sorely tempted to call her Wonky as she got stuck on the way out, and looked like a boxer with a squashed nose when I first saw her (2 hours old)...it was the first name that popped into my head! It has straightened out now (her nose, not my head...that'll never be right ), but it is still very tempting...maybe to myself eh?
But I decided to be kinder than that, and have waited to see what she's like....she has become Spike, as she has the best natural mohican I have seen on a 3 week old baby. Her Daddy was the same (DS3) and was called Sparky for years...he is now known to all his friends and work colleagues as Wingnut, due to his prominent ears.......we do collect some strange names in our family
It's extended further, as my cousins daughter was, and always will be FartyBum to me...every time I held her, she'd trump for England.
She's 19 now, and still refers to herself as that if she phones or txts, and she calls me Aunty Farty in return.