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The Dr. Laura Podcast

The Two Nanas Conundrum

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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at Dr.ora.com. Okay. This is from Elizabeth. She writes, I'm writing. Now, I had to read this about

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three times to keep it all straight so I'll go

0:39.2

slowly because I understand it might be a little difficult to follow you right

0:43.8

you ready I'm writing to ask you for your input please we have a family

0:51.0

compound where one n, my mother, lives full-time, and another grandmother,

1:01.7

my mother-in-law, who chose the name Nana for herself when her oldest was born.

1:09.5

And we informed her then

1:11.5

that when the grandkids renamed her,

1:16.8

and that stopped me right there,

1:20.1

grandkids rename you?

1:22.4

What?

1:24.7

She would need to embrace the new name.

1:29.3

So this woman gave birth and her mother and mother-in-law both wanted to be Nana.

1:39.9

But the mother-in-law visits a few weeks at a time.

1:45.1

Our seven-year-old, who is the oldest grandchild for my mother-in-law,

1:51.4

my husband is an only child, has gotten extremely frustrated having two nannas.

2:00.0

And using names, last names, it just didn't work for day-to-day interactions.

2:09.1

So Lucy, the daughter, renamed Nana number two, Nona. So for seven years, the mother has been called Nana. The seven-year-old has decided she wants

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