what do the grandchildren call you?

I thought long and hard about what we would be called when our 1st grandchild came along 10 years ago and eventually opted for Grandma and Grandpa I don`t find these name formal I just like the Ma and Pa element to them

Grandma and Granpa here too. It doesn't worry me at all. It did while my daughter was pregnant - but as soon as GS was born - well, what's in a name? If DBH was called Theophilus I would still love him.

My grandson lives in Poland and grandma there is Baba.
He calls his mum's mum small Baba his greatgranma is BigBaba and because I have a horse I am horsey Baba.

I like the Swedish way - mormor for mother's mother, morfar for mother's father, farfar for father's father, farmor for father's mother. Eay words for a child, yet you know instantly which grandparent is being referred to.

We had friends in the 70s who forbade their kids to call them 'mum' and 'dad'- which I found so bizarre and silly. And we now have friends who forbid their grand-kids to call them anything like 'granny' and 'granpa' (etc)- which I also find daft (personally, sorry).

Do any of you find it distasteful to be called the above and variations of?

I'm known as nana to my three grand kids. They call hubby "gramps".

Not sure whay they call us behind our backs though!

ahaha being called 'nanna' here would really make people laugh. I was once, but no longuer ;)

Une nanna, is a stunning woman, or even a bimbo ;) (in French)

I'm Grandma Wise (no, don't titter!) or Grandma Crone.... DH is Grandpa Andrew.

I am Nanny Carol to the eldest 7 of my Grandchildren but to the youngest 4 (all siblings ages 2 - 7) I am Nanny-Nanny as they say I am more special than Nanny. This, as you may imagine makes me feel wonderful.

My granddaughters have two grandmothers who wanted to be called granny, neither of us like nan or nanny [we're not goats] or grandma. So we settled on being two grannies. However, my oldest granddaughter, for no reason we know of, started to call me Gagi and that's what they both call me. So we have Granny and Gagi.

I am little nanny,ex-hubby is grandad silly,step-gran is gran,other nan and grandad are nanny and grandad bubbles.Great nan is big nanny!Don't ask me why!

I never knew my grandparents. Two were killed at Auschwitz, another grandmother died of septicaemia when my mother was 2 and my other grandfather died when my mother was 13. I used to envy friends whose grandparents were still alive and saw their grandchildren regularly. However, I did have one great-grandmother - who was quite happy to be called Grandma For some reason my mother wasn't that keen on her - she'd brought my mother up from childhood when her mother died and my mother hated living in St Helens with a grandmother who was, to her, rather cold and unloving.
And sadly my own mother died too soon to see many of her grandchildren, let alone any great-grandchildren. I am so glad my father is still alive to see his little great-granddaughter, but he's always insisted that his grandchildren call him by his first name (Heinz) and NOT Grandpa and that's how it's always been. He says that being called Grandpa would make him feel old

I am called Bumble, originally Grannie Bumble but I felt this might be shortened to Grumble ! So kept calling myself just Bumble & it worked !