http://www.3stinkyboysandme.com/blog/2010/03/whos-your-momma/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:33:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.3stinkyboysandme.com/blog/2010/03/whos-your-momma/comment-page-1/#comment-543 lisa Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:43:12 +0000 http://www.3stinkyboysandme.com/blog/?p=1247#comment-543 In Chinese culture, you call your grandparents, aunts, and uncles on each side of your family by different names. For example, I'd call my grandmother and grandfather on my dad's side " A Mah" and "Ye Ye"; on my mom's side they'd be "Po Po" and "Gong." I suppose it makes sense considering Nina's confusion over which grandma's which, but as a child I found this sooo confusing--and having a different name for each uncle and aunt depending on the side of the family and whether they were older or younger than your parents! I still have to nudge my mom and ask her what to call someone at big family reunions. .-= lisa´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.sololisa.com/2010/03/product-review-dove-beauty-bar.html" rel="nofollow">Product Review: Dove Beauty Bar</a> =-. In Chinese culture, you call your grandparents, aunts, and uncles on each side of your family by different names. For example, I’d call my grandmother and grandfather on my dad’s side ” A Mah” and “Ye Ye”; on my mom’s side they’d be “Po Po” and “Gong.” I suppose it makes sense considering Nina’s confusion over which grandma’s which, but as a child I found this sooo confusing–and having a different name for each uncle and aunt depending on the side of the family and whether they were older or younger than your parents! I still have to nudge my mom and ask her what to call someone at big family reunions.
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]]> http://www.3stinkyboysandme.com/blog/2010/03/whos-your-momma/comment-page-1/#comment-538 Nina Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:17:08 +0000 http://www.3stinkyboysandme.com/blog/?p=1247#comment-538 It's amazing to me that at his age he is thinking about who your parents and othe relatatives are. I don't remember any of you asking those questions until much later. As far as the "Nina" name goes; it wasn't the "Grandma" stigma that I was trying to avoid, I wanted the grandchildren not to have differentiate between the grandma's by using the last name (i.e Grandma Emmons/Grandma Young) like I did growing up. I never knew what grandma we were talking about unless the last name was added. For some reason I didn't like that. It’s amazing to me that at his age he is thinking about who your parents and othe relatatives are. I don’t remember any of you asking those questions until much later. As far as the “Nina” name goes; it wasn’t the “Grandma” stigma that I was trying to avoid, I wanted the grandchildren not to have differentiate between the grandma’s by using the last name (i.e Grandma Emmons/Grandma Young) like I did growing up. I never knew what grandma we were talking about unless the last name was added. For some reason I didn’t like that.

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