DD is insisting on being called "Cherry"

[Anonymous]

I think of Sharon Tate begging to let her baby be born.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow, so many people have replied!

A lot of people were suggesting she go by her middle name. I suggested this to her as well, but she said that her middle name (Eleanor) is also an old lady name. I think that's just unreasonable. I knew plenty of young Eleanors, and besides, she could just go by Ellie! I also talked to her about the sexual connotations of "Cherry", but she said I was being "gross" and just walked out the door

Honestly, I think she just wants to pick and choose her name and that's not how names work!

Of course it is. You gave her an awful name, she chooses something else. She's allowed to call herself whatever she wants.

You sound awful.

[Anonymous]

Her middle name is the best. Eleanor has lots and lots of nicknames. Ellie is a bit popular

Sorry Sharon is a terrible name. It’s not even middle aged. The Sharon’s I know are 70+ years old. Middle aged is Lisa and Jennifer.

Cherry is better than Sharon. And it’s not really up to you as a parent what your kid wants to be called. You give them a name and they can choose after what they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow, so many people have replied!

A lot of people were suggesting she go by her middle name. I suggested this to her as well, but she said that her middle name (Eleanor) is also an old lady name. I think that's just unreasonable. I knew plenty of young Eleanors, and besides, she could just go by Ellie! I also talked to her about the sexual connotations of "Cherry", but she said I was being "gross" and just walked out the door

Honestly, I think she just wants to pick and choose her name and that's not how names work!

Of course it is. You gave her an awful name, she chooses something else. She's allowed to call herself whatever she wants.

You sound awful.

Right!! It’s like forcing your kid to wear dresses when she only wants pants. It’s not your choice as a parent once your kid is older than 3.

[Anonymous]

This has to be a troll. Sharon Eleanor? They don’t go together in the slightest. They are completely different genres and also the names don’t flow together well either.

[Anonymous]

All of you people telling OP nicknames she can suggest to her daughter are completely missing the plot: the kid is 14 and angry at her mother and thinks her mother has terrible taste for naming her Sharon (which is true) - so the kid is NOT going to take any suggestions about names from OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think of Sharon Tate begging to let her baby be born.

Who?

[Anonymous]

Life is the ‘pits’!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think of Sharon Tate begging to let her baby be born.

Who?

I’m not the PP (but I am named Sharon, and can’t look away from this train wreck of a thread).

Charles Manson’s goons killed actress Sharon Tate (and many others during a vicious murder spree) in 1969.

Helter Skelter, and all that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think of Sharon Tate begging to let her baby be born.

Who?

I’m not the PP (but I am named Sharon, and can’t look away from this train wreck of a thread).

Charles Manson’s goons killed actress Sharon Tate (and many others during a vicious murder spree) in 1969.

Helter Skelter, and all that.

I think of the wife of ozzy Osborne. Cue Ozzie yelling confusedly “SHARRRRONNNN”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow, so many people have replied!

A lot of people were suggesting she go by her middle name. I suggested this to her as well, but she said that her middle name (Eleanor) is also an old lady name. I think that's just unreasonable. I knew plenty of young Eleanors, and besides, she could just go by Ellie! I also talked to her about the sexual connotations of "Cherry", but she said I was being "gross" and just walked out the door

Honestly, I think she just wants to pick and choose her name and that's not how names work!

Actually that's exactly how names work. Not the battle to have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think of Sharon Tate begging to let her baby be born.

Who?

I’m not the PP (but I am named Sharon, and can’t look away from this train wreck of a thread).

Charles Manson’s goons killed actress Sharon Tate (and many others during a vicious murder spree) in 1969.

Helter Skelter, and all that.

More evidence that all Sharons are in their 60s.

[Anonymous]

this would not be the hill I died on. Call her Cherry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think of Sharon Tate begging to let her baby be born.

Who?

I’m not the PP (but I am named Sharon, and can’t look away from this train wreck of a thread).

Charles Manson’s goons killed actress Sharon Tate (and many others during a vicious murder spree) in 1969.

Helter Skelter, and all that.

More evidence that all Sharons are in their 60s.

Sharon Tate would have been in her 80’s today.

But poster 15:19 on page 4 rebutted the claims of an abundance of 70 and 80 year old Sharons by pointing out that, indeed, as you say, we are mostly in our 60s.

[Anonymous]

I have never like my name but was super annoyed by the way my parents spelled it- I always had to spell it, pronounce it, etc... so one day in high school- I changed the spelling to the more traditional way. I just started writing it and it quickly stuck. I never asked permission and it took a few years for my parents to realize I was the one who changed it (not all these people spelling it wrong like they had already done for most of my life). It made things easier.

In hindsight- I should have gone by a different name