As Shirley MacLaine made abundantly clear in "Terms of Endearment,"
not everyone immediately gets jazzed about being dubbed a grandmother.
It's a signal that you are undeniably, unequivocally old, the sort of
person who keeps a pair of square-framed glasses perched at the tip of
her nose and has lengthy conversations about arthritis pain.
But as the Wall Street Journal reports,
some Baby Boomer grandparents are rejecting the
dentures-and-early-bird-dinner trap. How? By refusing to call
themselves Grandpa, Grandma, Granny, Bubbe or any of those other Oldy
McOlderson monikers that stand in stark contrast to the forever-young
attitude of their generation. Some of the alternatives they're going
with: Papa Doc (for a grandfather who happens to be a doctor), Coco (an
homage to Coco Chanel) and -- for my money, the most ridiculous --
Glamma, the "glam" version of Grandma.
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