Do Not Give Your Kid A Weird Name

I was watching a TV show this morning when a group of triplets were introduced. Their names were all rhyming and were alterations of other things like Candy Wrapper. This is just wrong. We need to think about every conceivable way a name can be butchered and twisted before we tag a child with it. I know that when I was pregnant with my girls I worked hard at checking not only their names but making sure that their initials didn't turn into some kind of bad 3 letter word like BUT or GAG. Kids can be mean and twist things easily enough into unkind words. I remember growing up and being called Dumb bar, Dumb butt, if you could twist Dumb or Bar into it I probably got tagged with it.

We have to watch out for naming kids things that have some kind of sexual innuendo, also. For example, the girl on The Seinfeld show whose name rhymed with a body part and Jerry spent the entire show trying to remember her name by rhyming every body part he could think of. Then there are those parents who want to get creative and come up with new names by pulling a bunch of consonants and vowels together and call it a name.

There are also the people who come up with what they call "a more original spelling". People, admit it, you spelled it wrong and now you are stuck with a constant reminder that you can't spell. And, your poor kid is stuck constantly correcting others who are spelling their names correctly and have to be told to misspell it. Besides didn't you want one of those license plates for your bike when you were a kid. How can your kid have one if they have some twisted up name. They are going to end up with #1 Kid on theirs. We all know what their issue is.

Come on, cut your kids a break. Use a book, find a name, check and see if it rhymes with any body parts or body functions and if it passes the test, your kid has a name.

Changing The Subject Completely, I just want to tell Miss Liza, Job Well Done!! She finished her first High School Musical tonight and she was THE BEST Lavendar Bird I have ever seen. Congrats, Kiddo, YOU ROCKED!!