What is with people consistently calling their kids by both first and middle name?
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Anonymous
Same. |
Anonymous
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I can be a Southern thing sometimes. I find it annoying as well.
To make it less annoying and to amuse myself, I hear these names as they will be pronounced 25 years from now. Most people shorten their name eventually to its easiest form. So "Jayden William, stop squirming in the grocery cart" becomes, "Hey, Jay, we still on for the pub tonight?" and so on. It can be a fun game to play in the check out line when the mom behind you keeps using the full first and middle over and over again. |
Anonymous
| Some people have always and will always do this. Nothing new. |
Anonymous
Or Claire |
Anonymous
| Are you sure their names are middle names? I went to school with a Mary Katherine but that was her first name. Maybe the parent is using just the first name but you think it is the middle name too? |
Anonymous
+1 I've met a few John Paul's in my DCs' schools. I also went to school with a Mary Katherine, a Mary Grace, and an Ann Marie. |
Anonymous
To last PP, did you go to catholic schools? |
Anonymous
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all the time or when giving orders?
might have been useful for my parents, my brother's a my names rhymed so I would totally ignore them calling me and then innocently say I thought they were hollering for him |
Anonymous
| If you are southern, it’s the norm. I’m Anna Elizabeth. I go by Anna Beth. I wouldn’t answer to Anna. No one has ever called me just Anna. My kids go by double names as well. I promise. We don’t do it to annoy you. They are just names. |
Anonymous
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It’s how the kid knows I mean business.
Sidebar: the term “grates in nerves”, has the same effect on me that double names does for you. It sounds so hillbilly. |
Anonymous
My teenage Zippy (not her actual family nickname, but you hit the level of goofiness) loves her family nickname and when we don't use for a while, she asks why we stopped. We learned this when she was entering HS and I made an effort to call her by her actual name, and she was sad at me. Her friends call her a different nickname, which is related to her actual name. We come from a family that does the first+middle name thing (southern), and most of them call her by her family nickname. Now I wonder which is more aggravating, Sarah Ann or Zippy? |
Anonymous
| Op here. I mean it's here in the DC area so maybe they are from a more southern area but that not where this is taking place. Also no it's not just when giving orders it's all the time "are you hungry Sarah Faye" etc... |
Anonymous
I know what you’re talking about. It’s always said in a cutesy way. |
Anonymous
Elizabeth Grace, stop doing that right now! |
Anonymous
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I ge that this is petty of me so I’d only say it on an anonymous forum but it annoys me too. I think because it’s just so try-hard and it’s always the parents who insist on narrating their child’s play louder and more often than anyone else.
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