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If you like attention and want to be
creative, live an eccentric lifestyle – dye your hair a
bright colour, document your travels to a war torn country or cover
your body with tattoos. Don't give your child Talula Does The Hula
From Hawaii, as a first name. It's not funny or amusing.
People will perpetually ask you and your
child 'why that name?' Your kids will grow up telling the same
story over and over and by the time they are in the third grade,
they'll probably have half a dozen nic names mocking their unusual
moniker.
Sure Sunday Rose sounds pretty to Nicole
Kidman but to everyone else in this world it sounds like a day of
the week and a sweet smelling flower. Given, the name Peaches
Honeyblossom does sound cute, did Bob Geldolf have no other avenues
available to express his individuality? I doubt it.
It could be worse, Jermaine Jackson's son
is named Jermajesty and actor Jason Lee's child – Pilot
Inspektor. Moon Unit, Audio Science and Blue Angel? Come on, if you
want to be funny, do something that affects only yourself –
tattoo 'stupid' on your forehead or change your own name to
Metallica or Budweiser.
If the parents are willing to change their
own names to something unique and perplexing and keep that name for
at least a year, then perhaps they would better understand what
their offspring will be going through every day for the rest of
their lives.
Don't ruin your kid's childhood by
scaring them with an awkward name. Trust me, having to spell out
your first and last name several times a day, wears your nerves
thin after the first thousand times.
Zoe Szuch is a News reporter. You can
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