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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would you like to switch grandmas?  We named our daughter Millicent.  The first girl in each generation gets named that, going back many generations.

My mother's name is Millicent and MIL feels that Baby Millicent was named after her. She is bitter the baby was not named after her, so refuses to call her Millicent. Thus, she calls her Tillie.  Millicent ignores her because she hears Tillie and probably thinks "well that's not me" and MIL gets very upset.  We have told her repeatedly to try calling her by her name, Millicent, but she continues on with Tillie.[/quote]

That's hysterical.  Sorry OP, but it made me smile.  [/quote]

DH and I have agreed that if this is our biggest extended-related problem we're doing well.[/quote]

OP, can you maybe split the difference and suggest she call your DD Millie? Then at least it's related to her actual name?[/quote]

Or maybe she backs off and just lets Grandma and Millicent have a special nickname they only use with each other. [/quote]
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Tillie is actually a really cute nickname for Millicent.  It's not the end of the world if Grandma has a special nickname for Millicent.  It's really not.  Is Grandma's reason petty and stupid?  Sure it is.  But that doesn't mean that the nickname has to be a point of contention.  Either little Millicent will continue to ignore "Tillie," or she'll figure out that it's a nickname and she'll decide she likes it or she doesn't, and if she likes it, there's really not a damn thing you can do about it.  If she doesn't, she'll tell Grandma she doesn't like it.  This is one of those problems that's going to solve itself and is really not worth getting offended by.  You cannot control what people call your child forever--teachers and friends and classmates are going to give her nicknames, and it will be up to your child to deal with them.  
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