My dd is 2.5 and I still have second thoughts about her name. I like it, my dh likes it, dd seems to like it, and I think it suits her, but we went against my dh's family traditions in giving her the name, it's a foreign name to the fairly homogeneous culture in which we live, and pronouncing it correctly is next to impossible for most people here. (It has a 'th' in it, which does not occur in the language of the country where we live. Oh, and it's first letter is not traditionally included in the alphabet here.)
I'm a foreigner in the country where I live and every time I need to give my name for some bureaucratic thing, there's a huge scene. No one will even listen to me spell it. The always want to see my documents directly. And my name is pretty straightforward compared to hers. Now every time it happens, I think, "Great, I've signed my daughter up for this? What were we thinking?!"
The culture here is changing, there are more and more immigrants and I'm hoping that by the time my dd is in school there will be a few other kids with interesting names.
I fear hearing something like that when dd gets older.
I'm a foreigner in the country where I live and every time I need to give my name for some bureaucratic thing, there's a huge scene. No one will even listen to me spell it. The always want to see my documents directly. And my name is pretty straightforward compared to hers. Now every time it happens, I think, "Great, I've signed my daughter up for this? What were we thinking?!"
The culture here is changing, there are more and more immigrants and I'm hoping that by the time my dd is in school there will be a few other kids with interesting names.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by nextcommercial
 She told me when she was five "Sometimes you just want a seaworld mug with your name on it ya know!!!!" <--through tears.
|
