Why can't you spell her nickname the way we do.

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Anonymous wrote:Why does it even matter? So she has a chair with the wrong spelling. Your kid isn't going to be traumatized. This really is a stupid thing to get upset over.

My grandparents have always called me by a nickname that my parents never used. Rather than having a massive hissy fit about terrible inlaws, my parents just said - aww so cute. And now 40 years later, I loved that I had that special name bond with my grandparents - the only people to ever use that nickname.

It is like some of you look for ways to be offended. How tiring.

+ 1000. It's a nickname. I can see being offended if it was her first name. It's not it's her nickname. If your daughter is actually reading now at 2,5 she isn't going to be so stupid that she will be confused by this. Be a little less controlling.

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Ally and Alli are the same, calm down

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Anonymous wrote:I would either adjust the spelling with paint (if possible), paint the entire chair a solid color or - if that's too much of a hassle, donate it. Your DH has already identified the error and MIL didn't offer to get it fixed or replace it, so you've tried.

At some point in the not-too-distant future, your young DD is going to be sad that her grandma doesn't spell her name/nickname correctly. This will most likely be hurtful to a little one. Address this now, OP, before it gets out of hand. MIL should not be pulling these stunts.

It is a fabric chair. Yes, the Pottery Barn one.

Perfect—Get a new cover. They aren’t cheap but I’d do it to show MIL you won’t tolerate that.

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I'm curious what the name is!

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Take it back to Pottery Barn and ask for a discount on a new cover since your old senile MIL spelled her name wrong.

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New cover or embroidered patch over the old one.

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Even if it's more money than you want to spend (those chairs are SO overpriced IMO) I would totally buy a new cover spelled correctly. Screw her and her passive aggressive-ness.

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Is the name on the back of the chair? Put it against the wall. Problem solved. It's annoying but not worth escalating.

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Anonymous wrote:At least she says it right. My mom refuses to even use the nickname even when the kid preferred it. She puts the full name on everything even though we've asked her not to.

This isn’t the same at all. If you didn’t want the first name to be used, you should have named him/her the nickname.

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For $29 you can buy a replacement slipcover.

https://www.potterybarnkids.com/m/products/slipcover-anywhere-chair-light-pink/?cm_src=YMAN

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If it's easy to put a slipcover over it (even one that doesn't have any name, maybe a nice animal or other picture that she likes) then I'd do that.

If it's not easy to 'correct' the problem then I'd give away the chair. And anything else with the wrong name on it.

I'd see these games as a not-so-subtle way to control our family, and I wouldn't tolerate it.

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Get someone on Etsy to make you an iron-on piece of fabric with her name spelled correctly then cover up the misspelling

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If not returnable I would do one of the following: donate it, add missing letters with a sharpie if that is possible, but a new one with the proper spelling and donate the wrong one

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Anonymous wrote:I thought you meant like, Vicky vs. Vicki, where it's a spelling difference. I think Susie vs. Suzi is a big enough difference that it's not misspelling, it's a different nickname your DD has from her grandmother. That's less bothersome to me because it won't confuse the kid about spelling and letters, and more of a "you can have this thing together" issue.

Both pronounced the same. It is the same nickname- MIL just refuses to go with our typical, traditional spelling of her nickname.

Why didn’t you just NAME her the nickname. I hate people like you

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Anonymous wrote:Hear you, OP. My name is Amy. Not Ami. I am not an "i" type.

Absolutely. If $ isn’t a huge issue, I’d get an identical cover with the correct spelling, just because. Or a plain one. If it is too costly or you just can’t bring yourself to do it, go the sharpie route.

A genuine mistake would be an unfortunate bummer, but intentional misspelling? Nope.