Being called granny

I'm proud to be called granny!

I'm called Granny - at my request - and I wouldn't be called anything else.
I love it!

I have a 16 year old gd, who calls me nan or nana, I quite like that and nan is a ladies name anyway

A group of neighbours was talking about this same subject and one of them chipped in with 'I don't care what they call me as long as it's not late for my dinner!'

Sorry - maybe I should have put that on the thread about Mum's sayings!

I am 39 and love my little grandson calling me granny (or gan-gan as it is at the moment) everyone always tells me oh that's such an old name why does he call you that - same as you my precious granny no longer with us was a role model and I'm proud to have her granny tilte - hope I become as good as her one day in grannyness ??

Im granny or rather gaggy at the moment ? I love it, I'm 50 and couldn't care less if other people think it sounds old, it's what my gorgeous gd wants to call me and that's all that matters.

I am Nanny, not by choice but when my 1st SGS was born 22 years ago DSD asked me what I wanted to be called, I told her it was her choice, DH was Gramps by choice, I accepted Nanny Lynne as DSD's DM was Nanny Anne. So it stuck.

When my DGS was born I was told by DD that I would be Nanny (although as a grown up 6 year old!!! he wants to call me Nan. My DM is Granny. But what's in a name if used with love

I also hated Nanny as I always think of a goat but now I don't mind, I'm often Nanny Grapes as that's DGS's treat when I see him !posh ones from M & S as my DD always says

Looking at the teenage GC I remember being Franny to one, Ganny to his brother when they were very small. Time passes so quickly and those moments with them are now such precious memories.
Oldest GD told me she referred to me as 'other Nan' when with her mother's family. Now I'm her only Nan and sad for her.

I am Granny and I chose it. My own children had Nanny and Grandma and I decided to be Granny for ease of identification. It doesn't sound any older than. Grandma, does it?

Entirely up to you and your GC - my Aberdonian family have always used Granny/Grannie, but my Lancastrian husband's grandparents were Grandpa/Grandma and our DS called them Grandpumpa and Grandmama to distinguish between them and Grandma. Ignore stupid people!

I am also a grain and wouldn't like to be called nana or nanny some of my friends say grandson makes me sound old well I am at 70 I'm no spring chicken it's my choice to be called granddaughter so if someone doesn't like it it's not my problem

I was Grandma at the age of 44. Nanny is a female goat.

Exactly Bijou or paid help ?

Wel I think we all have our own associations. When my first GC was born I was asked what I wanted to be called and opted for Grandma as thAts what I called my own grandmothers and what my c called my mother . I love being grandma! DH on the other hand thought Grandpa sounded old and posh/pompous ( why?) and opted for Grandad - which sounds older to me! Luckily the other grandmother wanted to be Nanny which is the tradition in their famiky and ive never been all that keen on it so thats ok for us All. Whatever you Are happy with is ok!

My first grandchild couldn't say grandma but RaRa. So all my six grandchildren call me RaRa now.

I'm grandma and proud to be so. I think that it's a personal thing. Our kids called my mom Grandma and my DH mum wanted to be nana - not a name I personally like.

I don't like granny, gran or grandma as I do think it sounds old. Makes me think of an old lady with silver hair in a bun with glasses, in a rocking chair. Well that is MY opinion before any snaps at me! Sorry if it offends anyone. I'm nanny then my first name as is the other grandparent. I called my mum's mum nanny and my children called my mother and husband's mother nanny. If children think nanny sounds a bit babyish when they're older they can always call her nan instead.

My mother was Grandma but the youngest couldn't sat it and called her Amagnyar which sounds much more difficult and people thought she was foreign! "Granny" sounds just right.

Nanny is a lady goat or a paid childminder, Nana was the Darling's dog in Peter Pan.

Yes agree about Nanny, but in the end does it really matter? We all have our preferences. I don't like Nanny but for goodness sake it doesn't have to equate with a childminder or a goat. Each to her own, and whatever she likes to be called. Lucky her that she has someone to call her something. I had given up by the age of 72 then 3 proverbial buses arrived, one after the other.

When my son and daughter in law had my granddaughter they asked me what I would like to be called I said nan or nanny as that is what we called our grandparents as someone else mentioned I think it is a region thing. y daughter in law parents are from Malaysia and they are called something completely different. So take no notice what people say they obviously have nothing better to do with their time.

I only have step-grandchildren - when the oldest one was born I was only in my early 30's but I became Nanna because I said it would confuse her (then the others) to call my husband Grampa and me by my name so I am Nanna (name)

My own grandparents were Gran and Gramps, my dad Grampy to my two nephews

I was going to be Granny, and would have been very happy with that, but my firstborn DGC called me Yaya and that's who I am. I love it. If anyone queries what you are called, get back at them with a similar comment about their first name - "oh, that's interesting, I've always thought Athena / Bertha / Codswallop was a really old-sounding name. Don't you hate it?" Apologies to any real life Athena's etc, just picking ones out of the air!

Personally I don't like Gramdma/Grannie so am called Nannie (name) and other Nannie is Nannie her name. Works for us that's all that matters.

Those who go on about nanny being a goat presumably are also scathing of the use of mummy which, of course, has a meaning other than mother.
Why keep on these efforts to make people whose GC call them Nanny feel wrong or inferior? It's just snobbery isn't it?