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What are their last names?
When I got married, I didn’t change my last name. Before I was pregnant, I turned to my husband and said, “Maybe when we have kids I’ll change my last name.” David looked at me and said, seriously, “To what?”
This is pretty much how things have stood through our first six years of parenthood. There’s been no last name confusion. It’s been fine. Then, the other day, my son said to me, “You’re name is Robin Stone.” And my daughter piped up, “No it’s not, it’s Robin Aronson. It sounds better.” Was my daughter tapping into some sense of my independent identity or was her stated preference really just a matter of aesthetics? Continue reading »
“Everybody has such weird names these days,” says Steve Martin’s character in the movie “L.A. Story.”
He’s relieved when he finally meets Sandy, a girl with a normal name (played by Sarah Jessica Parker).
Then she spells it for him: “Big S, small a, small n, big D, small e, big e and then there’s a little star at the end,” SanDeE*explains.
That was nearly 20 years ago and name spellings have gotten increasingly creative since then. Some parents strive to create a memorable spelling for their baby’s name, while others are irritated by the popularity of kree8tive spellings. Continue reading »
Baby naming is serious business. Before saddling our kid with a name for life, we poll our friends, climb around in the family tree and, of course, search the Internet for baby name suggestions. Our long lists of possible names become short lists until we’ve narrowed it down to the perfect name. But while most of us are ultimately satisfied we chose the right one, some of us end up with a bad case of baby name regret.
A recent report reveals that 3% of us wish we could take it all back again and choose a different name for our child. But the reasons most parents experience baby name regret are not the reasons you might expect.
Do you allow your children to play with plastic toys? Have they seen a Disney movie or even own toys or clothing emblazoned with Sleeping Beauty or Lightning McQueen? Do you push — gasp — a Graco stroller?
Then you are not the target market for this list by Pamela Redmond Satran, the self-styled “baby name expert” who runs nameberry.com. recently on the Daily Beast, she shared her The Elite’s Top 50 Baby Names.
Mock though I do, I admit her description of an elite’s baby-naming process sounds a lot like mine: Continue reading »
Thank heavens Samantha Smyth didn’t deliver her baby in a Pontiac. Or a Hyundai. She did, however, give birth in her Kia. And now Kia Motors is giving Smyth and partner Tony Richardson a brand new car.
So what’s the catch? Continue reading »
There are crappy names, and then there are names that were perfectly fine until a single mom wrote an internationally best selling children’s book and Warner Bros. started making movies about it.
Yes, I’m referring to Harry Potter. Not the boy wizard – the poor English bloke who shares his name with the fictional character. Continue reading »
Another out-of-work pregnant woman, another auction on eBay in the hopes that some mega corporation would love to see little Pepsi-Cola Wal-Mart Drummond running around Arkansas.
Do I feel sorry for his desperate mother? I’m trying.
Oh, I’m trying. Continue reading »
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