PCOS Message Board - View Single Post - do you think it's a good idea to change a child's name?

ProudPCOMom · 10-27-2008, 04:44 PM

We changed our 2 yr old son's middle name - as we really liked his first name at it *fit* him so well. I couldn't imagine him with a different first name.

We changed our 3 yr old daughter's name completely - her name didn't fit her at all and we really disliked it. We had been calling her a nick-name from the time she moved in at age 2 and had permission to use her new name 3 months before her 3rd birthday. We decided what her new name would be before she was 2 1/2 and we *played* with the name with her for a few months before we started using it. We would sing songs with her new name and talk to her about it. When we started using it, she already knew it was *hers*. It was just a matter of time until the paperwork was final and EVERYONE would use her new name (including medical providers). Up until she was just over 3, I think she still recognized her old name when it was used for others - as she perked her ears up when she heard it, but she doesn't react to it anymore.

Both of our children had bio-family names as their middle names, so we chose not to keep them - we gave them names we would have given birth children and were meaningful to us.

If our children had been older, we would have involved them in the re-naming process.

Susan