Why do people over-annunciate your name pick when they don't like it. In question form.

[Anonymous]

But before the baby is here, for some reason that gives people free reign to criticize it.

Absolutely! My DH and I feel proud that we were instrumental in stopping my sister from naming her DD a stupid, made-up, striving, Ralph Lauren pictorial name: Emery. or Emmery. or emery board? or Emory like the university, even though sister and BIL had never even heard of it, seriously?

dumb dumb dumb and trashy.

Emory's brother should be Clemson I think. That way people will know they're both rich and wear ascots


(*** op, Reid is beautiful)

[Anonymous]

Reid is the name of a very famous bug poison where I come from
*tee hee*

[Anonymous]

op i feel ya i hate my inlaws too. am steering clear of telling anyone name choices...which we have thought of NONE (we're having b/g twins) - and we have only 2 more months!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's Reid. I just didn't want to bias you in case you hate it.
Ugh, I hate my in-laws. "R-EEEE-Duh?! Oh I'm not on board with that." Well too bad! You don't need to be!

Love, love, love it. You don't watch the Bachelorette, do you? Probably not, but if you did you'd have a very positive association with the name Reid Either way, screw the haters, especially if they're your in laws!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

But before the baby is here, for some reason that gives people free reign to criticize it.

Absolutely! My DH and I feel proud that we were instrumental in stopping my sister from naming her DD a stupid, made-up, striving, Ralph Lauren pictorial name: Emery. or Emmery. or emery board? or Emory like the university, even though sister and BIL had never even heard of it, seriously?

dumb dumb dumb and trashy.

Emory's brother should be Clemson I think. That way people will know they're both rich and wear ascots


(*** op, Reid is beautiful)

Emery is just an old boy name being used on a girl. That's not trashy.

Angel is trashy. Roxanne is trashy.

[Anonymous]

My MIL flat out told me she hated our choice of name. And I told her she better get over it before her granddaughter arrived. But I wont be making the mistake of telling her for DC#2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't understand this "rule". Are we obligated to love every single name?
Are we expected to be liars? I just don't get it.

How about just following the simple rule of "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all." That would solve a whole heck of a lot of problems on this board, and in life.

I can't fathom why people feel the strong urge to share their opinion, unasked, on everything. If someone asks you "what do you think of this name?" that is different. But sharing your negative personal opinions otherwise is NEVER a good idea. Ever. Even if you feel them, that doesn't give you the right to be rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's Reid. I just didn't want to bias you in case you hate it.
Ugh, I hate my in-laws. "R-EEEE-Duh?! Oh I'm not on board with that." Well too bad! You don't need to be!

Hey, that's my name, spelled just like it! What a great name!

Anyway, with DC#1, we told a few people during the pregnancy, and almost everyone we told acted like it was such a horrible name. Now DC#1 is 2 years old, and many people comment on what a beautiful name it is (including a receptionist at a doctor's office when I was making an appointment yesterday). So try hard not to care what others think. IMO it is super rude to make those kind of comments, some people just have diarrhea of the mouth.