Feeling a little saucy tonight, and I thought it best to start off the new year right with a few baby name related resolutions we could all stand to try and stick to this year…
10) If I choose a word name for my child, I will not misspell that word to make it “more attractive.”
9) I will resist the temptation to name my baby after a sports product: out Spalding, Track, Slugger, Adidas.
8 ) I promise not to name our child after where they were conceived. No Brooklyn, Paris, Wichita, Kitchen Table.
7) No matter how much my husband fights for it, I will not cave and name our child after his favorite video game character. Same goes for science fiction heroes.
6) Cutesy in utero nicknames à la Peanut, Pookie, and Bun will not make it to the birth certificate.
5) I will not substitute apostrophes for proper spelling.
4) Blatantly negative, violent, aggressive names are not as cool as I initially thought. I pledge to choose Benjamin over Felony any day.
3) We won’t splice our names together to arrive at our child’s invented name. There are other ways to incorporate both sides of the family.
2) I will not name my child after a dictator, racist, or mass murderer.
1) I will not impart my own weird obsessions onto my child via their name, they will be scarred enough as it is.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
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Amen.
What a great idea! I love it. Happy New Year.
Well Pam, you took mine– so I had to think of something else!
Happy new year to you too.
Brilliant!
I second that amen. You pretty much covered it!
Hallelujah & Amen to the third!
Fantastic job, Elisabeth!
I have to echo all the “Amens” out there. Great list!
So true!
HAHAHAH, Kitchen Table.
Though, I like sci-fi names *runs and hides*
Preach it sista!
I’m laughing my arse off over here. Brilliant job.
Finally someone tells it like it is!
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Oh come on, if we can’t use sci-fi names, will never agree on a name!
Well I guess that’s what you should go with then, Sarah. There are always exceptions, of course! I should add, one of my best friends is into sci-fi names, and I love her, and will adore her children, whatever they may get named.
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