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Originally Posted by Derwood
1. Don't give all your kids names starting with the same initial (My wife's family consists of Maria, Miguel, Melissa, Mauricio, Matthew and Monica...oh and the dogs are Mickey, Minnie and Maury)
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My idiot sister and her husband did that with their four children -- she thinks it's cute to sign cards K4 - (all the kids names start with the letter K) I don't see the cuteness -- let the kids have their own identity.
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3. Pertaining to ^^^^^, if you WANT to name your kid Matthew, stick to it. Don't let other people (particularly teachers) nickname your kid if you don't want them to. My wife's brother is named Matthew, and everyone in the family calls him that. It's been a losing battle since elementary school for him with others calling him Matt. He hates it, but he has given up on correcting people.
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That's a battle I fought forever. My first name happens to be two names. Somewhat confusing, but I have always introduced myself with both names. My birth certificate has my name as two names as my first name and a middle name (which I hate so I never use)... It never failed, all thru grammar school and high school, I was always called my the first half of my first name, because people assumed my second first name was my middle name.
Right before college, I had the spelling of my name legally changed, so that it became one word because I got so sick of being called Mary -- intead of Mary Ellen -- so -- my name officially became Maryellen.
Were my parents mean to do that? Nope, I like my name, it's unique enough that I don't come across too many maryellen's but it's also not so far out in left field that people say - -huh? Just drives me nuts when people try to shorten it to something that is not my name.