[cupcakes]

I'm an xer and looking forward to being a grandparent. Heck, I'd skip parenthood and go right to being a grandparent if I could. I have no problem at all with being called grandma, grammy, grandmom, and the like. I'm greyer than my own boomer mother and I could care less that I am where she worries about every little grey hair and line she gets. Believe me there is quite a difference in our attitudes over getting older and the new delights and responsibilities that come with it.

[Nea Wood]

So, because you have a better attitude about aging than your mother does, (aren't you wonderful?) that means all Gen-Xers have a better attitude about aging than all boomers. Got it!

[mabelkitty]

I did - my hubby is a Baby Boomer, and I'm a Gen Xer.
I co-oped granny mode ASAP cuz their real granny would have no part of it (she of the vast amounts of plastic surgery and non-granny name, by the way).

We had tea parties, went to the zoo, we colored, we baked, we went to barbecues, I bought them toys, candy, made them eat home-cooked meals, etc.

Real granny got real jealous real quick.

[AnAmericanMother]

I (b. 1955) called my grandparents Nana and Papa (mom's parents) and Gram (dad's mother - my paternal grandfather died when my dad was only 10, he never got to be a granddaddy. I'm sure he would have liked to be one . . . )

My children call their grandparents G'anny and Bubba (mine) and Grandma and Poppy (husband's).