Would it bother you if nursery kept spelling your child's name wrong?

[Namenamenam3]

My son has a normal name, nothing wild or out there. But it has a couple of different spellings like, for example, Finlay/Finley (not real name)

Nursery can never seem to get it consistently right. He comes home with what seems like a different variation of the spelling on everything. His pictures will come home with one whereas the things uploaded to the parents page will have another etc..

Do I say something or just leave it? I'm not annoyed or anything but not sure if I should keep correcting it or not? I have mentioned it before to his key worker when she asked me to sign an accident form with the wrong spelling.

I work in a preschool and we have the children’s names written up under the names of their key teachers and pinned to a cupboard so it’s easy to check spellings - and we do. One year we has four Amys and every single one was spelt differently. Names are important, it’s absolutely okay to keep reminding the manager

It wouldn't bother me if they got it wrong in correspondence only for you but on pictures or other craft he creates they should absolutely get it right. If he looks at it later and sees that the spelling was wrong he might think they didn't care much for him or something like that.

I've also had a situation where parents spelled their child's name interchangeably as Pheobe or Pheebe and never got to the bottom of what the actual, official spelling was

I would check the spelling they have on the register to make sure it's correct. Wouldn't be too bothered about mid spellings sent in parental correspondence but if it's on his work it's not ideal as he will be learning to recognise his name

We get this constantly with our surname. Its an Autocorrect error creating a more common synonym (surname is a British animal with and extra letter in the middle, pronounced like the animal... Baddger for example). School books etc we just correct it (one year they printed out and put labels on all the books before noticing). I've sent back certificates and official paperwork for correction before.

I often get stuff from DD1s friends parents with her forename spelt wrong, but its an unusual spelling (non English) so I expect it. Her friends spell it right!

People do this with my name. It's a very common name that has a less common variation. Mine is the common one. It particularly bothers me when people reply to my emails, that I've signed with my name and my name is in my email address but no theyve decided the other spelling is correct.... I dont bother to correct.

Oh man- I hope one of them wasn’t me. I’ve just started a new job & my new manager’s name is the same as my old manager’s, but spelled differently.

I’ve messaged her with ‘thanks Aimee’ then followed it up with an ‘*Amy, sorry!’ on more than one occasion and cringed every time. It’s in her signature! It’s right there! Yet still I type Aimee.

Yes I have a son who has his name often spelt wrongly and I did correct it at his nursery. I think it was important that the setting he was at every single day for a prolonged period of time spelt his name correctly. I will do the same at his school too if they spell it incorrectly.

It would annoy me too. I've named my dc a more unusual name, very similar to another more common name so what I did was buy stikins labels with dc full name on and stuck them on all dc stuff. That way dc name was on lunch box/water bottle/bag/clothes clear to see.

Worth just mentioning - DD is Tabitha, thought that would be the only spelling but she came home with stuff labelled Tabatha/Tabtha/Tablitha! I mentioned briefly to the main lady at the preschool- not wanting to make a fuss but nice to have it consistent for kids recognising their own names as pp has said- and she got straight on it and it didn't happen again! No point making a big fuss over it as they are often run off their feet with lots of kids splashy paintings to label up! - but it did help with ours.

@sparepantsandtoothbrush

Well then you should correct people every single time

Lol. No thanks.

I can’t stand it!

i have it with my name. My sons name is unique without many ways to spell so he hasn’t had it.

my daughter will likely get it as there’s many different varieties of her name and it’s more unusual.

my worst is when someone at work writes me an email - and I know not only does my signature have it, when you start typing my name it says it in the box above. So why spell it wrong? Are they doing it on purpose?

i also think it’s slightly racist as my name is an ethnic one, but also a nickname for a non ethnic name. And they spell it the non ethnic way. As if the letters themselves are so foreign to them.