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TIP with DD
So my DD has brought this up to me twice now and I don't know how to respond to it. She is telling me she doesn't like her first or middle name. I don't know what to say or do? Her name is Nipsey Russell. I love the name, but she doesn't. I don't know what to do...
Re: TIP with DD
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Nipsey Russell is a funny funny guy.
Yeah, but I mean honestly this isn't mud, as much as I know it sounds like it is. I really don't know what to do.
Right, I have no problem letting her use a name she likes, and if she wants to get it changed I'll let her. But I mean with school and things like that should I just put the name she wants to be called and then her real name in parenthesise?
Changing a name legally isn't THAT hard. I had a friend whose crazy mom did it to her every time the mom got a new boyfriend. If you don't want to legally change it, then you have to use her legal name on all school documents, If you want to put her nickname in quotes( FName MName "Nickname" LName) that would probably work as well.
But really... Nipsey?
I know. I am a terrible person who probably has a cozy spot next to Lucifer himself, but its just too long of a back story. I'm hoping when she is older I can explain the significance behind it and why I'm not the worst person in the world.
what does she want to be called?
I grew up disliking my name because it was "weird" and I didnt know ANYONE with my name...but now I love it.
I'm playing the If This Were True Game.
Haha that's what I was thinking.
They're embarrassing me right now.
C'MON GUYS!
Currently Reading: Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
I'll play along.
Your DD has more sense than you do. Nipsey is something you name a Chihuahua, not a human child. I don't care if you've attached some kind of significance to it, have some common sense. I have a deep and abiding love for Snickers bars, but I sure as hell am not going to name my child after one seeing as how I want him/her to be gainfully employed in something other than porn someday.
Ask your DD what she would prefer to be named, and then begin the legal name change process.
Nipsey. Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiist.
it certainly is!
Nipsey is an awful name. I demand to know what the eff the significance is and why the ever living eff you thought she would be able to go through life with the name?
PS- I think this is mud, but my allergy medication is making me happy to float around TN/TB.
I'm going to play along for a minute. I've worked in military personnel settings for many years and from time to time we stop, share a "different" name and wonder what kind of nursing home those parents will end up with.
I would love to hear the backstory here but she is going to be teased mercilessly in middle school/high school. Kids are cruel. Find a name she really likes and go change her name legally. It isn't too late to undo what you did when she was born but you need to help her out here.
A person's name should never be a source of constant questions and teasing.