Comments on: Stressing About Baby Names

By: Joyous

Joyous — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:52:47 +0000

These are the likely same people trying to get their kids into college-prep nursery schools. I want to thump them.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:30:30 +0000

Thinking more about this whole thing, it’s not having trouble choosing that’s bothering me. I thought the woman in the article who did a tournament bracket for her kid’s name was brilliant. What I’m bothered by is the overriding weight placed on the name, as if that more than anything else will determine your kid’s trajectory through life, and that there is an objective way of judging what name is best.

By: Chrissy and Jon

Chrissy and Jon — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:13:40 +0000

Hey Stephen,
Having taught kindergarten, I learned that I should name my children names that would be easy to spell and write. Will and Luke.
I taught a little girl named Chardonnay and that’s when I said to myself 4 letters or less!
Chrissy

By: Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:05:12 +0000

Joe and I couldn’t decide for the lizard, so my sister picked her name.

By: Pop

Pop — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:38:27 +0000

One could always do what the parents of an acquaintance did: delay naming the child until the child is old enough to pick a name. Makes for another whole set of interesting issues. Or one could do what a different acquaintance did: go to court and change the name once reaching maturity. OR, follow the lead of yet another friend who used going off to college as a chance to change which name to give/answer to (as a variant, a former student just picked a name she liked and started using it). Yes, there is much craziness associated with naming!