dd2 wants to be called by her first and second name

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by everyone she is 4 years old. so she is asking her teacher today to call her lauren jade, not lauren.

this is gonna be fun lol. i have already been told off today for forgetting pmsl.

I would just go with it. I think it means she is taking pride in her own identity, and likes her name - I'm sure she'll grow out of it, but I think it's rather nice

lol- I love kids getting determined about their names. My little sister changed the spelling of her name to something phonetically bizarre aged 12 or so and stubbornly stuck to it for years and years. Go for it Lauren Jade.

dd1 did the same thing, every had called her Nikki for years, but she told us off, so we all call her Nicole now. occasionally nic.

LOL! My DS1 went through a phase like that!

My DS2, also 4, currently wants to be called Aiders MacMonkey which is causing great confusion all round.

My 2yo currently insists on being called Grandad. I say "Hello XXX" and he replies "No, I'm Grandad. I'm not XXX, I'm Grandad." I say "Well, have you got a beard?" and he strokes his little chin and says "Yes, I've got a beard. I'm not XXX, I'm Grandad". It's very endearing but I hope he grown out of it

scummymummy - i remember a simialr phase when i was a teenager, my friends became Katii (previosuly Katy), Bekki (previosuly Becky), Cerey (previoulsy Ceri)and i became Katz!

lol katz.

i remember the same aged ten i became holly then aged 12 it was holi then aged 16 it changed back to holly.

i think there's nothing wrong with calling her lauren jade if she likes it and you must like it if you named it her. my ds is called toby-jack and we always call him that. a few people have called him TJ so i make sure to point out i hate the abbreviation TJ and if they must shorten it then just to call him toby, but then most people start to call him toby jack.

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My 15 yr old sister calls herself Elz and all her mates have done similarly bizarre things to their names (the only one I can remember off hand is Alibanana)

Lauren Jad is nowt really my sister's full name is a right mouthfull so I'm glad she didn't do the same thing

At least they are using their own names - my dd (age 3) occasionally comes up with, "I'm not Georgie I'm Minnie" - she thinks she is Minnie Mouse.

(Cringe - my mum told me that when I was at infant school I told everyone that my name was Elizabeth. - It's not even remotely like my first name, middle name or surname, nor is anyone in my family called Elizabeth. Sort of thing Mum drags into conversation when she hasn't embarassed me for a while... )

i dont mind her using her two names together, but it makes me laugh at her telling me o0ff for calling her 'just lauren'

Thats nothing, last year my DS (nearly 6) was insisting his middle name was either Glitter or Elvis

LOL. I was Livvy until about 7, then I made everyone spell it Livi (probably with hearts above the i's ). Then by 10 I'd decided Livi was bleuurgh so it was just Liv after that.

well my 4 yr old cousins are called sam thomas and max edwin. thomas happens to be sams fave out of thomas the tank so now max calls himself max emily as that his favorite!

well at least lauren jade is a nice name my DS is Elliot Joel but he has decided he wants to change his middle name to.....Percy and he is happy to tell everyone this