Can you politely tell people 'don't nickname my daughter'

[JenniferHart]

Obviously you can do it, but can you do it and still maintain your easygoing friendly image. Or would that ONE comment throw your whole personality out of the water and reveal you as an anal freak putting on a show....

JUST wondering.

If the full name is Elizabeth/Eliza (for eg, not the actual name) and a friend you see a lot of calls child lizzy, then that could really stick, couldn't it?

As a side issue what about mispronunciation.

All the dcs and my dds nursery are able to prononuce her name Maia as it should sound i.e. My-ahh.

However a lot of educated adults I know insist on saying Mee-ah or May-ah.

Why is it so difficult?!? My little sister had this for years with naomi too.

What's hard about Naomi? Or is it that horrid Nyomi?

seeker, that's the point I was making really, because a baby can't decide what they want to be called I think we should respect the child/adult who can decide what they want to be called. If everyone called our hypothetical Elizabeth "Lizzie" from when she was born and she turned out to hate it then you have the problem of getting people out of that habit and into the one of calling her "Beth". Call her Elizabeth until she can say "well actually, I'd prefer to be called Beth". It should be up to a person what they are called not random relatives and strangers.

yes lots of did and still do call her nyomi.

i don't get why it's so hard!

My cousin is called Naomi and Nyomi always drives me mad! It's not that hard, is it?

One of Tink's middle names is Sara but said with the original pronunciation (Sarah). I know a lot of Sarah's and one Sara (same pronunciation) and didn't want anyone saying it was after them. One of the Sarah's keeps saying the hard "Sara" which doesn't work with the flow of her name and isn't her name. I think she's just jealous as she and Sara are godmothers

Dd2 may well have been Naomi, except that I knew I would have been driven to distraction by people saying 'Nyomi'. It's such a lovely name, it's a shame it's been spoiled (imo!) by mispronounciation.

Oh yes, my Naomi gets that. Actually I do find that madly maddening

To those who take offence at mispronunciations and name-shortening, surely you chose the name with the potential nicknames and mispronunciations into account?

If they offend you, then you only have yourself to blame for choosing the name in the first place.

Agree with other posters that it is pointless to control something as inconsequential as this. One day your child might even decide to CHANGE their name and you cannot do anything about it.

Is it not a bit of a farking liberty to just Re-name somebody ELSE's child?

Obviously when the child is 14 they could change their name to Cleopatra or Bod. So using that arguement we shouldn't bother to put any thought into giving nice names at all!

One, two and three would do nicely.