More than one child with same name in class?

[jollyjane]

My ds is starting primary this September just found out there will be another child with same name.
I do not want ds to be called his name and then his surname initial!
Any other ideas anyone.
Thanks.

is it a common name?

if so this is going to be a lifelong problem

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When my Ds was at nursery school he had two terms being "Little X", two terms as "X" and then two terms as "Big X". We were very proud of his progression - you know how difficult it is to see tangible results in small children .

Blimey, I like to fret about things in the dark evenings of my soul, but even I - and I have 2 DCs with "usual" first names as they have a bit of an odd surname - have never fretted about this!

Is he called George W?

i think this is really striving to find difficulties where none exist

dont even carry on thinking about it

You can't do much about this, as has already been said quite a lot.

many kids in primary school are known by their first and surname all in one.......

usually both children are known with the letter after their name - not just one.

Where I teach we have two boys (unrelated) in the same year with identical first, middle and surnames.

Amazingly we manage.

Most astonishing so do they, and seem unscathed by the experience

IF this is really bothering you, you need to realise THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.

Unless you call your child somthing very unusual it's bound to happen. No-one outside school will call him James X or whatever and he will only be referred to as that in group situations, the teacher won't sit down with him and say 'Now then, James x...'

God I'm sitting here worried to death about paying the mortgage, an upcoming court case and trying to get my children statemented and I get accused of being thick because I think that there are possibly darker things to worry about than a child having the same name as another one. Sorry but it just doesn't figure too highly in the scheme of things right now.

Might have to drop the Bunty from Jajas as I'm obviously coming across as too frivolous of late !

ds was a kindergarten with a LOVELY boy with "his" name. the other boy was 4 years older and briliant with the little ones.

ds has a name that is sometimes a given name and sometimes a short form of a long name iyswim (like sam/samuel, only not). we use both at home. the other boy had the short form only.

anyway ds was given the option of using his long name, or being "little short name". He chose the latter, simply because then he could have the same name as this older child he hero-worshipped

LOL re lifelong problem.

When I was at law school we had "Fat Rebecca" and "Thin Rebecca" and "Nice Philippa and "Nasty Philippa".

I'm thinking using your surname initial is pretty small compared to that!

DS starts in primary 1 in august and I heard him being called his surname for the first time last week, rather than his first name, as he in one of 2 with his first name in his class, ie he was called "smithy" or the like.
thought it was quite fuuny, actually.

Runs off, checks qualifications, ascertains that I am not a thicko, and that I have more to worry me than nonsense like that.

Malcolm X?

lolol at op

And can I say, girls, how nice it is to be called a THICKO in such fine company!

(glad it was in caps, it made it easier to read as I ran my finger under the big words......)

How silly to be abusive - much better to take it on board and say "God yes I'm being an arse"

I've done it myself, on more than one occasion

From one of the thickos (who happens to be a lawyer)

I have, three times now, had parents come in to organise specific meetings to make official complaints about their children being known by their whole name, rather than just their popular, multiple in the class first name

I just look at them like this and tell them what I said in my first post. Tis a big problem, doncha know.......

I typex my tipos frequently

DD1 has a fairly unusual name. Alas, DD2 has homed in on and is making friends with...a girl with the same name.

I do confess to feeling utterly confused and slightly weirded out and generally bonkers if I meet anyone with the same first name as me, though. It does happen, very occasionally. Sometimes I meet people with the same surname, and that feels weird too.

And I googled DP - like you do - and found someone with the same name as him, when I thought the peculiar bungle spelling of his name was, er, unique. I feel all proprietorial about the nice young Asian bloke in San Francisco that I've tracked down. (And wonder vaguely how he feels when he googles himself. As you do.)

I tippex my screen.