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Put my foot in it…🙈

29 replies

RachyKF · 07/05/2023 08:11

Have you ever completely put your foot in it regarding a chosen baby name?

A couple of years ago, a little boy in my nursery class got a new baby brother. For the first week he didn’t have a name, they just couldn’t decide. On the Friday I asked the little boy what he wanted to call his brother. He answered “Mario, Luigi or Axel”
When mum came to pick him up, we were chatting. I told her what her son had said regarding baby names. Assuming ‘Axel’ was also part of Super Mario, I then said “I don’t know which is worse!”
Her face fell as she told me they had registered the baby that afternoon, and called him Axel. There was nothing I could say.

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RachyKF · 07/05/2023 09:18

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Whataninsight · 07/05/2023 08:19

Just seen you say on another thread that you work in a nursery

presumably this was a parent of a child you look after at this nursery?

Whataninsight · 07/05/2023 08:18

But to not know what a baby was named and to criticise a name is thoughtless

Whataninsight · 07/05/2023 08:16

This was a couple of years ago?