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Good
Parenting - Naming Your Baby
Have you ever known a person with an unfortunate
name or set of initials? Please try very hard not
to do this to your child. What would he think with
a name like Alan Stuart Smith? He'd better make
sure he doesn't go near any holes. Unfortunately
you can't do anything about initials that mean something
now but didn't when your little angel was born.
Walter or Wally for short for instance. How about
Christine Sally Irving? These examples are something
you will just have to chance, relying on the law
of averages.
A fair number of families have a specific name that
runs through the generations. If you are naming
your first child, you may not realize the pressure,
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overt or subtle, that you will
be put under to continue in the tradition. This
will be especially difficult if your family doesn't
have this sort of generic identity but your partner's
does. Good parenting states that you, that is, you
parents, should be totally happy with the name you
choose for your child. If this means defying your
elderly, or even not so elderly, relatives then
so be it. If, on the other hand, you are quite happy
and perhaps even willing to accommodate passing
down a family name then, again, so be it. Just make
sure that it is YOUR choice and no one else's.
Your child's name is not his soul as our ancestors
probably thought. But it's not as simple as that.
People can and do associate specific names with
characteristics and personality. Psychologically,
good parenting recognizes that your child could
'pick up' on this subconsciously and become like
his name. In other words a name could mould a person's
personality.
Do you follow the 'celebrities'? Do you want to
follow them even further by giving your baby a name
one of them have used? Has someone called their
baby Beelzebub? Isn't that a cute name? Do you want
your child to have that name? Hey, it could be used
for a girl and a boy can't it? If you'r reading
this then you have access to a pc, so Google it.
Find out what it means and then decide. Do try and
do some basic research before naming your child.
That's what good parenting is all about - minimizing
unforeseen circumstances by simply thinking things
through and doing some simple research. It's not
hard.
Unique spellings are cute aren't they? Wouldn't
it be great if you called your daughter Ema (not
Emma) or Karoll instead of Carrol? Have you considered
what problems she would have going through life
with a none standard name. Picture yourself back
in school and try to work out if you would like
a name like that. Somehow I think you may change
your mind if you did that properly. Good parenting
is not dictatorial though. There a quite a few acceptable
alternative spellings for names around now. One
of these should be acceptable. The question is,
do you want your little angel to start off a new
craze for an alternative spelling? What if nobody
else takes it up?
It's not my intention to worry you at all with all
this. You have a partner, so try and share the decision
making. That's what good parenting is all about.
In the long run, you'll be glad you put yourself
to just that little bit extra effort when you named
your child.
Resource: Your child's safety and happiness is in
your hands. For further free information go to http://www.lookafteryourchildren.com
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