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[quote=Anonymous]I am one of the posters that thinks it's too late to the change the name but honestly, if my new child came to my family with the name Sugar, Pixie, or Trixie, I would no doubt think of a "special nickname" and stick with that until she's old enough to make a mature decision. I'd go as far as letting schools know of the new nickname and all. I wouldn't get rid of her original name cold turkey though. I'd probably start using both in some way. Like "ok Bamby Sue, it's dinner time" and then start dropping Bamby gradually. Let's be honest here, you can be sympathetic to the child and her name, obviously you wouldn't tell her "we hate your trashy name", and you wouldn't want to legally change it because of the message that would send but coming up with a nickname is the way to go if her current name is something like listed above! [/quote]
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