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Original poster

To wonder if you would randomly rename a child?

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IneedAsockamnesty · 19/11/2013 23:03

A child that had already been registered, with a name that had apsolutly no relation to the child's actual name at all,so not just a shortened version with a word that is not even a name.

Oh forgot to add its not your child and there is no history or cute back story to the rename.

So would you just decide someone else's child was called something completely different and that was that?

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Blu · 19/11/2013 23:05

What are you on about?

hiddenhome · 19/11/2013 23:05

Eh? What like a friend renaming their friend's child? Wouldn't the parents object?

notanyanymore · 19/11/2013 23:06

I'm slightly confused by the question. But do you mean if, for example, the child was adopted?

ImagineJL · 19/11/2013 23:06

Need more details. I presume this is a child who has been adopted?

catgirl1976 · 19/11/2013 23:06

What, like I have a child called William and someone just decides to call them Ben?

That would be odd, yes.

lougle · 19/11/2013 23:07

This is a MIL thread, isn't it?

steff13 · 19/11/2013 23:07

My name is Stephanie, and my grandfather used to call me Suzie. He also used to call my mom Suzie when she was little. Her name was Karen. It was just a nickname, and I thought it was sweet.

breatheslowly · 19/11/2013 23:08

I don't think you can rename someone else's child. Obviously you can call them the wrong name in error, persistently, but that isn't the same as renaming them.

AlwaysSleepingBeauty · 19/11/2013 23:10

Is this like the Rodney /Dave thing ?

MrsBW · 19/11/2013 23:10

I think there is more to it than you are letting on in your OP.

Until we know the detail, we don't know if YABU.

Lilacroses · 19/11/2013 23:11

If this is about adoption....I have 4 friends with adopted children. None of them have renamed their children, one calls her Dd a shortened version of her birth name but the others use the same names which are quite distinctive. Is that what you mean?

phantomnamechanger · 19/11/2013 23:11

I agree, this has to be a MIL calling a child the name SHE would have chosen because she does not approve of the chosen name, for whatever reason.

SandStorm · 19/11/2013 23:13

I know of a child who was registered with one name (like George) but was always known as a completely unrelated name (like Stanley). He was only ever called Stanley at home, school, clubs etc. Apparently there was a mistake when registering him but I suspect that's not what you mean by 'randomly'.

phantomnamechanger · 19/11/2013 23:14

"a word that is NOT EVEN A NAME" - I hope you don't mean they are habitually calling the child a pet name like sausage or pickle or sweetiepie or treacle or something, and you are offended about them not using the name??

Ouchmyhead · 19/11/2013 23:16

I am really intrigued about where this going!

notanyanymore · 19/11/2013 23:17

I want to know too where's the OP gone?

DorothyBastard · 19/11/2013 23:19

"A word that is not even a name"? How intriguing.

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IneedAsockamnesty · 19/11/2013 23:22

I will try and explain, sorry for being confusing I'm rather sleep deprived Grin

I have a baby ( well I have more than one but in this case I'm referring to the youngest one whose 3 weeks old) this baby has an actual name one chosen by her dad and I. Its a real proper name and it obviously is on her birth certificate.

My blasted mother has randomly decided that she is only to be referred to as baby boo.

For back ground not one other child in the family has a nickname,this has never happened before she has always been quite proper about using people's names not shortening or anything like that and has always hated incorporating baby or junior or things like that into names,

But all of a sudden she has decided that this baby is called baby boo and any reference to her actual name is ignored.

I don't get it,to me it seams really rather odd

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aquashiv · 19/11/2013 23:23

Yes I do this all the time more fun and I never for get the na me I've given them.

hiddenhome · 19/11/2013 23:23

Could she be going 'a bit funny'?

lougle · 19/11/2013 23:24

Get over it Smile

aquashiv · 19/11/2013 23:24

Baby boo dear god no wonder you are annoyed

steff13 · 19/11/2013 23:25

I think it's ok if she wants to have a pet name for the baby. But, I've been known to refer to my toddler "boo boo," "sugar doodle," "sweet potato," "pookie," and "darling." So I may not be the best one to offer an opinion. Grin

NearTheWindmill · 19/11/2013 23:26

When dd was born I couldn't get my head round her proper name and called her "fag ash". Have no idea why that was so, but DH gave me a bit of a talking to.

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IneedAsockamnesty · 19/11/2013 23:30

She hasn't gone a bit funny,she's just the same as normal.

But this is a woman who ripped the piss out of my aunt for years because she called her child baby jay ( but that may have been more because he was usually known as BJ as opposed to baby). She's got a big thing about names not one of her children or grandchildren has ever even so much as shortened their name around her and if they did she would correct them.

It makes no sense at all

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