MSE Parent Club - Part 2

nadnad

oh lovely name cazcoob i really like that.

well my name causes all sorts of confusion my name (nadine) is actually my second name always has been - my dad and brother are the same they get called by their second name. So when it comes to doctors, well basically anything official it causes problems. And every year at school on the first day of a new class the teacher would read out the role call and say my first (not nice!) name to the sniggers of the class and the embarrassment of me!

i blame my dad he did it that way - he originally wanted us all the have the same initials as him :rolleyes: "DMR" but in the end only my brother is that cos he couldnt think of any girls names he liked that began with a D or M. Thank goodness cos it causes all sorts of confusion for my brother and him.

Becles

That's a nice name cazcoob :cool:

My Dad is known by his middle name. He was born just after an elderly relative died, and my grandparents were pressured to call him Robert after the relative, even though they couldn't stand the name. He's been known by his middle name all his life, apart from at the doctors where the doctor insists on calling him Bob

SusanC_2

chocaholic110 wrote: »

My Mam also thinks you shouldn't shorten names and says Tom should have just been Tom and not Thomas if that's what we wanted to call him.

My mum always says the opposite of that (i.e. that their "official" name should be the full version). She says her sister used to get certicates with Judith written on (when her name was actually Judy). Apparently when she told them her name wasn't Judith, adults would smile knowingly and still write Judith obviously assuming that she just didn't know what her full name was.

SusanC_2

Erin is a lovely name.

My Grandad's middle name is the same as his surname and sometimes when he has filled forms in, people have crossed out his middle name because they think he just wrote his surname in the first names section by mistake.

Becles wrote: »

He's been known by his middle name all his life, apart from at the doctors where the doctor insists on calling him Bob

:rotfl:

Welshlassie

nadnad wrote: »

oh lovely name cazcoob i really like that.

well my name causes all sorts of confusion my name (nadine) is actually my second name always has been - my dad and brother are the same they get called by their second name. So when it comes to doctors, well basically anything official it causes problems. And every year at school on the first day of a new class the teacher would read out the role call and say my first (not nice!) name to the sniggers of the class and the embarrassment of me!

i blame my dad he did it that way - he originally wanted us all the have the same initials as him :rolleyes: "DMR" but in the end only my brother is that cos he couldnt think of any girls names he liked that began with a D or M. Thank goodness cos it causes all sorts of confusion for my brother and him.

I'm Donna Michelle

We chose Rhys partly because it was Welsh and partly because it couldn't be shortened.

nadnad

i really dont mind shortening names - oscar gets Oz and Ozzie, and his second name is Charlie not Charles. My sister get sam or sammie, she's samantha, I call my husband just "d".

ladybirdintheuk

Caz, that's a lovely name

DH's Gran was known by her middle name, but no-one knew till we found her birth certificate after she died! She must have hated her first name loads not to even tell her kids that she had it :rotfl: .

I never had a middle name. My parents always said it took them too long to decide on a first name. I kept my maiden name as my middle name when we got married though, as it is one that can be either. So AT LAST I have a middle initial. I've always wanted one, and it always seemed terribly unfair when I was little and I didn't have one but everyone else did!

ladybirdintheuk

Oh, we suffered from too much excitement yesterday! Went to my cousins house to meet her new baby (just a bit older thasn Izzy) and introduce Izzy to them all and to my grandad who came along too. Poor girl stayed awake the whole time we were there, and was exhausted by the time we got home. Too much new things to look at, new toys and a noisy toddler to keep her awake.

We got home at 5pm and she was hungry, but fell asleep before she'd ate properly, and I couldn't wake her up, then she woke up about 2 hours later and did the same. Rinse and repeat until 7am this morning! Luckily I went to sleep with her at about 9, or I would be nackered today.

This morning we went to sing nursery rhymes at the library for half an hour, and she's been asleep all afternoon too. I don't want her to sleep so much she doesn't sleep tonight, but I expect she is still catching up from yesterday, so I'm going to wait and let her wake up when she is ready. I may live to regret this decision

chocaholic110

nadnad wrote: »

i really dont mind shortening names - oscar gets Oz and Ozzie, and his second name is Charlie not Charles. My sister get sam or sammie, she's samantha, I call my husband just "d".

Quite often we just call our daughter by her initial - H. Not sure how it started but it has stuck! I call my husband by his (our, lol) surname, more often that not.

Savvy_Sue

nadnad wrote: »

i blame my dad he did it that way - he originally wanted us all the have the same initials as him :rolleyes: "DMR" but in the end only my brother is that cos he couldnt think of any girls names he liked that began with a D or M. Thank goodness cos it causes all sorts of confusion for my brother and him.

I hope your father won't take it personally if I say "What a ridiculous notion!" :rotfl: Not a lot of forethought there ...

DH and DS2 share an initial and DH keeps opening DS2's letters. He was very confused to be invited to University Open Days, for example, although I'd have known by looking at the envelope that they were for DS2. Anyway, DH doesn't have a middle name either, so I keep telling DS2 that he ought to use his initial if he wants to keep his post private, but he won't. I suppose he only heard it used when he was in trouble ...