Respect my child's name

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I saw this article on CNN. Has such a thing ever happened to any of you? Has anyone, especially a relative, ever refused to call your child by its given name?

Or has anyone not 'respected' YOUR name? For example, in grade school there was a girl who constantly insisted on calling me Al. My name is Alison, and nobody else ever called me Al. I hated it and thought it made me sound like a trucker, but I didn't want to hurt her feelings by telling her to stop. Alternately, there was a guy in high school who decided it would be hilarious to start calling me Ali, in order to annoy me. The thing was, my nickname WAS Ali. Most people at high school didn't call me that, but my childhood friends and family all did. I thought when he realized that I was responding to the nickname and not getting annoyed in the least, he would catch on... but he never did.

Comments

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

I was being good and very carefully not mentioning my opinion of Chastity as a name ... :D

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

usually I take the moms' side on the naming issues. but this time I have to side with my dad. danielle/dani is acceptable. even likable. chastity is just strippery.

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

Yes that's pretty much my opinion, but I was taking my advice from another comment that telling someone that to their face is rude :D

I mean I don't like virtue names anyway I think they're asking for trouble and they're just not my style, but Chastity does sound like something you hear on Real Vice Cops :D

Danielle/Dani is pretty though and gives you that option of more adult name or cute nickname. If I were you I'd formally change my name by swapping them around, if only because I would not want my degree certificates and such in the name of Chastity, it lacks that professional ring to it :D

In my case, my father was the one with no taste and my mother wouldn't let him use the names he liked (Amanda Belinda, both of which are lovely in their own right but together are, IMO, both hideous and a mouthful to say - and would have given me the initials ABC, which he thought was cute and was his main reason for choosing them). Not only that but had he done it I'd have been the third Amanda in my class at school.