Sweetums, G-dawg, Lovey? 👀 There's a wave of women rejecting the term 'grandma' for more unusual alternatives
Why has she gone down this route? “There’s definitely that sense of not wanting to be seen as an old lady, with all the connotations that has. It was also about wanting to avoid the “I’m going to my nan’s for Sunday tea” thing. So “grandma” wouldn’t ever have been fine, and even now my daughter calls me mormor and I quite like it. It’s the force of nature thing, and the fact it describes the relationship we have. My granddaughter really gets that, and that it’s a Scandinavian word.
Jessie Wales, a PR and communications specialist, tells i that her grandmother and mother both also rejected the grandma title. “When you become a grandma, you are automatically catapulted into this grey hair and glasses category,” she says. “My French grandma was very stylish and glamorous. The term mamie – grandma in French – wasn’t something she was ready for but neither did she want her grandchildren to call her by her first name Jaqueline as that was a bit too removed.
“My mum had also wanted to follow in those footsteps – plus with my mum only being 20 years older than me, she definitely wasn’t ready for the granny title, nor does she look anything like one, as we all have a picture in our heads of what a grandma looks like.” Her grandchildren call her Nanibelle; a hybrid of her name Isabelle and Nanny. “It gave her her own unique name,” she says.
A call out to grandparents reveals that many have come up with their own nicknames. A grandma with no Italian heritage but “a deep love of family holidays in Tuscany” calls herself nonna. A former social worker in London called Mary Smith tellsshe is known as Apples by her grandchildren because she didn’t want to be called Granny Smith.
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