[blparent] Question of Interest
Jo Elizabeth Pinto
jopinto at msn.com
Sat Jun 18 20:38:33 UTC 2011
Sarah won't put up with getting called anything except her name. I can get
away with pet names like Chickadee or Tweety Bird or Goofball once in a
great while, but usually, if you call her anything besides her name, she
says, "No, I'm Sarah!"
I taught her to say her first and last name, Sarah Schumaker, in case
anything terrible happens and she gets lost or separated from me at some
point. I want her to be able to tell somebody who she is. But then I tried
to tell her one day that she has a middle name, Elizabeth, just like mine.
She wanted nothing to do with it. She's Sarah or Sarah Schumaker, and
that's all there is to it. I guess it's good that she's so confident.
*Smile.*
Jo Elizabeth
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning,
unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into
advance."--Franklin D. Roosevelt
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From: "Melissa Ann Riccobono" <melissa at riccobono.us>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:13 AM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Question of Interest
> Nicknames are so funny. We thought we'd call Austin AJ (short for Austin
> James) but we rarely do. I call him Buddy most of the time, and so does
> my
> husband actually. Austin really does not like anyone else call him
> anything
> but Austin. He tollerates us calling him Buddy, but the other day he
> asked
> me to call him Austin, so I'm really trying to do that more often.
> With Oriana, I swore I'd never call her Ori. I thought Ori sounded
> ugly, and if we'd shorten her name at all I preferred Ana. Wouldn't you
> know it though, Austin started calling her "Ori Bori Guacaholi." So we
> started calling her that too, and now we mostly call her Ori. She's even
> said what sounds like Ori herself a couple of times, so Ori it will be.
> I'm glad both of our kids have grown up sounding names they can use
> when they get older. I was Missy growing up, and am so glad I am now
> Melissa and had Melissa to switch to when I felt I outgrew Missy.
> Just some thoughts.
> Melissa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Sheila Leigland
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6:17 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Question of Interest
>
> When mark was a baby, he was the wee one, and then he became pootsa and
> then
> just toots and epentually we had to remember to call him mark in front of
> his friends. I think my husband said pootsa is nerwegian for something but
> i
> don't remember what.
>
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