my auntie keep calling my dd the wrong name on purpose, what would you do?

[kittenbaby]

yes and we will be seeing this aunt at christmas, dd is only 6 months so she won't know.

dd's name is saskia, not really that difficult to pronouce is it ?
the annoying thing about this aunt is that shes doing it on purpose

how would you handle it ?
id really apprieate any tips?

My SIL called her baby DD Cydne (pronounced sidney) at first i thought it was a terrible name but now i quite like it. The thing is, BIL and his parents insist on calling the baby something else - if i were the mother i would be furious!! lucky she is laid back though, i mean, surely you would expect your DH to agree on the name you chose together??

Just say loudly, 'Who's Sasha?' as a serious question. She'll hate to look stupid, especially in a room full of people.

My granny used to do this, but not deliberately, and we always had a laugh (with her) about it when she got someone's name wrong. Anyway, who am I kidding, yeaterday I went through all my dds' names before I got the right one for the dd I was talking too! She was not amused .

Oh fgs! 'talking to', of course

How do you know it's on purpose? If you're absolutely sure, I'd ask her outright why she keeps using the wrong name. Make it clear to her why you chose the name (lovely choice, by the way!) and why it's important, meaningful, etc. Ask her how she would feel if she had carefully chosen a special name for her child, only to have other people reject it like she's doing to you. Then smack her about a bit and say 'Merry Xmas you old bint, hope I've made myself clear!'

Well, okay, not the last bit.

Actually I wouldn't do any of that at all, but I WISH that I would. I'm going to try to be that forthright with my interfering in-laws this Xmas and tell them to stop bloody well insisting that I use 1950s child-rearing methods on my baby when he's thriving beautifully the way we've chosen to bring him up.

Good luck! Let us know how it goes!

My Nan wasn't impressed that I didn't call my son Nathan. WTH? Appears she thought he should have a name close to mine.

when your dd is old enough tell her to ignore her if she calls her sasha.

whoevers dd was called sophia - my friends called sophia too but it is pronounced to rhyme with higher not deer.