Friday, February 29, 2008
What's in a name?
In my opinion, EVERYTHING! Lately, we have been getting a few questions about the name of our little pea. Of course, his mother gave him a name at birth which I must admit is starting to grow on me. Now his name is not Bob, Mike or Harry so my concern is that wherever our pea goes for his entire life, he will have to explain his name and the pronunciation. I still remember being stressed on the first day of school worrying that my teachers would call me Stud-er instead of Studer. Now when I brought up this argument to a friend, JEP, she said that it obviously didn't scar me for life, but if I still think about it now maybe it had a bigger influence on me than she realizes. Any advice from you seasoned parents, would be much appreciated!
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more opinions from JEP: i've found there are two main schools of thought: either you care a lot about names or you really could care less about names. i'm the former. my husband and i have different last names. my kids have my last name. names are important -- and although mary's not scarred for life, it was clearly important to her that her name was pronounced correctly (is that why she's a hanson now?) your children will manage with whatever they are given. they are resilient. anyway, naming is powerful and significant -- choose something with meaning. choose something fun. heck, choose something that you like -- bc you're going to be saying it enough times throughout his life. you'll get used to it. and there are always nicknames :) and i mean good ones.
Well, what to say about the naming business since i just went through it myself...it's overwhelming! We spent hours looking for the perfect name and never really found it. When our little girl was born, the name I thought we'd go with didn't stick, because her dad thought it wouldn't sound professional as an adult. So we came up with something completely different in the birthing room. So, as you are concerned the name does follow you around through adulthood. However, being a teacher in an elementary school, every year I am seeing more and more non-traditional names, or traditional names with brand new spellings. I guess what I'm trying to say is I agree with JEP to choose something you like, but keep in mind it will follow him for his entire life. Good luck...I don't envy you!
First of all: You posted this at 8:35 am on a Friday...don't you guys work up there in Summit County? Us big city school district have to work on Fridays!
Second: What happened to VanHanson?
Does Chris know you're brokering name deals behind his back? You could always do what Amy and I did and just make up a name from bits and pieces of a family name.
Good luck on the name challenge, if Aviana had been a boy we were screwed because Daniel was the only boy we felt 100% comfortable with.
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