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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]

Tillie is really cute![/quote]
+1 that’s adorable! My grandpa was the only person in my life to call me Emma (my name is Emily and I only ever went by that) and I LOVED it. It was a special grandpa-granddaughter thing. Take a chill pill, for heaven’s sake. [/quote]

The way you felt about something cannot be extrapolated to how everyone should feel about a similar situation. Clearly the OP doesn't like it, and there's a pretty good chance the OP's daughter won't like that her grandmother deliberately misspells her name. The grandmother clearly isn't doing it to create a special bond with the child, but rather to annoy the child's parents.[/quote]

Tilllie is objectively so much better than Millicent.[/quote]

But that's not your decision to make.  Millicent seems wonderful to us because of all the wonderful women in my family line who have had the name.  All living Millicents get together twice a year and do something special (I'm the second daughter, so I've never gone, but I think they incorporate a favorite thing of each Millicent into the Millicent day).  Being a Millicent in my family is wonderful and special.  [/quote]

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