Thing is, I don’t like her name as much as I used to. She only has one. We didn’t give her a middle name because we didn’t want to. But now she wants one.
Her name is Natalie. So, I want nominations for what I can replace that with, and suggestions for a brand new middle name.
I really appreciate your help, and would post a photo except I don’t know how to use the new digital camera besides pointing it at things and pressing the button.
Which reminds me - if you’ve got any ideas of what I could call my digital camera, as well. It’s a Canon Powershot, I think. Silver, anyway. And quite small. But not as small as the really small ones. Does bits of video too.
That’s amazing. Just yesterday I was challenging my daughter about one of her classmates who she said had this English name. (Her classmates are 100% pure Chinese, case you wonder why I say “English” name.)
“Clarissa?!” I yelled at her. “Yes, actually, Carissa,” she replied in that you’re-so-wrong-about-everything…and-so-uncool-with-it manner. Then she had the cheek to show me some piece of paper with Carissa’s name on it. Dear, dear.
Absolutely. I thought of providing you with the surname before, but demured on security grounds. I do feel safe in saying that it’s a double barrelled name. Initials T-D.
PS I love all the names you suggest. Very Laura Ashley. Beulah is the standout so far. Wasn’t there a film about her day off?
Elizabeth, I like. But I think she’d never forgive me if she unwraps her brand new middle name and finds it is shared with a place in Saskatchewan. And what trouble she’s going to have finding anything to rhyme with it!
Wait–she doesn’t want a new name, but you want to change it for her? At age 9? Might this be kind of difficult for her?
When I was a school-aged kid, if my parents had told me they didn’t like my name anymore and planned to change it, I would have felt kind of like an object. I mean, your name is your identity, one of the first things you learn about yourself. As a kid, I felt very close to my own name. Your daughter would have to teach the new name to all her friends, and she’d have to learn to write it differently…the permanency of a name is something a child of that age usually takes for granted.
I’m not trying to chastise you or flame you or anything, just wondering how you decided to make the change and how you’re going to get your daughter used to the new name. I rather prefer the option of just giving her a new middle name and letting her go by that if she likes.
What kind of names do you like? Any that come to mind?
