LATEST FAD: BABY NAME REMORSE
We have all had remorse on some level during our lifetimes, including buyer’s remorse when we purchased a house, a car, or furniture. AND let’s be honest, we have all had marriage remorse when we secretly want to trade in the husband for a different model or at least a Golden Retriever who would be less needy and only require one meal a day.
I still experience Food remorse when I order a salad and secretly covet a cheeseburger or a fruit cup when I openly crave an ice-cream sundae; but I had never heard of Baby Name Remorse.
Apparently 10% of parents experience this change of heart regarding their kiddos name and go the gamut of legally changing the moniker before the child is knee-high to a grasshopper.
The major reason given for this name switcheroo is that maybe Junior looks more like a Don than a John. Anna looks more like an Amy and Zelda definitely presents like a Zoe.
I get it…………I just never had this problem. I suffered for months over the names I would give my children, studying every baby-name book ever published and putting first names with last to see how it would play. Since I never knew the gender of my kiddos until the actual delivery, I was ready with the name and never wavered.……..one female name, one male name.
I honestly picked the names out to please ME (and my husband), not the kiddos that would be stuck with them. Parents don’t have a crystal ball in order to determine that the name will fit the personality. I liked the name, they got the name. It was my take that they would just fit into the personality of the name……or just be themselves with their name.
Now, if one spends enough time pondering the name they are about to endow their children with they will steer clear of the possible legal swap. If they get sloppy and bestow their daughter with a name like “Sandy Nipple” (I swear I had a teacher in junior high with this name) or their son with the likes of “Jack Hoff”……….their remorse will land them in front of the courthouse with the “I CHANGED MY MIND” forms in hand.
Lorraine