![]() ![]() “That, coupled with a greater incidence of step and blended families,” she adds, “means that names have to differentiate between the generations and different extended families.” Klausner says, there may still be great-grandparents alive. “They think of themselves as organizing and running marathons and associate those traditional monikers with a more sedentary lifestyle - the older relative in a rocking chair - that is not their own.”Īnd because of increased longevity, Dr. Klausner, a clinical psychologist in the New York area who focuses on the psychological issues specific to older adults. “Many baby boomers have a hard time reconciling their vibrant, vital and active selves with the traditional names - they don’t fit their self-image,” says Dr. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play There appears to be more flexibility today in what grandparents are called, according to Ellen J. While some used terms of endearments like Nona or Bubbe or Oma, for the most part there was little variation among the previous generation - almost everyone we knew used a word that, in some language, meant "grandmother" and "grandfather."īaby boomers, on the other hand, are not “one size fits all” and are more influenced by one’s culture, religion, traditions, family names, inside jokes and whims. Similarly, my kids called their only set of living grandparents Grandma and Grandpa. Growing up, in my family we called our grandmothers Grandma Rose and Grandma Bessie, to distinguish between the two our only living grandfather was simply Grandpa. Even while embracing their grandparent status, the baby boomer generation is coming up with new nicknames for Grandma and names for Grandpa. For many of today’s active grandparents - who feel anything but old and stodgy - the terms Grandma and Grandpa have the decidedly unhip whiff of talcum powder, blue hair rinse and dentures. But being called “Grandma" and "Grandpa?” Maybe not for everybody. Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence.Just about everyone adores having grandchildren.Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information. ![]()
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