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[quote=Anonymous]Is it obvious to them or just to you? My ILs do not ever see my kids outside of family events so they wouldn't know that everyone at school, sports, scouts, etc. wouldn't use the nicknames that seem obvious based on their names. It also depends on the name itself. Timothy/Tim, Daniel/Dan are logically shortened names and ones that often are used by other later in life anyway. My nephew is Daniel to all of us but his high school buddies only call him Dan. James/Jimmy is different though and to a child could seem like totally different names. Perhaps you just need to point it out to them. "Gee, we really thought most people would want to shorten Gabriel to Gabe but so far almost all seem to call him Gabriel. At some point he may correct you so I just wanted to make you aware that the nickname really hasn't stuck." Overall it wouldn't bug me though. [/quote]
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