[blparent] Baby names

[Erin Rumer]

Yes, I know what you're saying!  Even though I have a pretty mellow name as
far as taunts go I still got my name constantly spelled wrong like the male
version as Aaron instead of the Irish version Erin.  The only one kids would
use regularly when I was little is, "Erin's scarin everyone in town".  My
last name was Elliott which I really liked and the only mean thing kids
would say with that is "smelliott Elliott" but that was only mainly by one
boy in particular and he stopped bugging me when I gave him a bit of a beat
down on the playground with my cane. LOL  It is amazing how bullying really
affects us all though because even though I didn't have a problem with
hygiene, I still became a little self-conscious about it and kept checking
my arm pits in the bathroom for a short period of time after that.  I know
bullying is another topic but it just goes to show how powerful words are
and names are something we live with forever.  I just feel terrible for
those kids whose parents were obviously smoking something when they decided
to name them!  My aunt is a maternity nurse  in a hospital and I kid you not
when I tell you that a woman came in and had twin boys that she named
Orangejello and Lemonjello.  I just hope for those boys sakes, they grow up
to be really large so they can defend themselves on the playground. Grin

Erin

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 12:21 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Baby names

Kids can come up with taunts you wouldn't believe.  Here are just a few I
got with Jo as my name!

"Whoa, Jo, you're too slow."
"Jo-Jo was a man who thought he was a woman ..."
"Jo, Jo, you stepped on my toe."
"Yo, Jo, whadda ya know?"
"Hey Jo, you're a pro.  I'm a poet and didn't know it."

And so on, and so forth.  My brother got teased mercilessly for having the
name Peter, which he didn't shorten to Pete.  I knew a kid in school who got
called Fartin' Martin so much that he started going by his middle name.

Actually, I think Daphy is a cute nickname.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:12 PM
To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [blparent] Baby names

> I really like Dawson and Preston. For the girls, I like Daphne, 
> although a potential nicname, or taunt, could be Daffy. I may 
> over-analyze things, but I have considered possible nicnames and mean 
> names other kids could give, along with what the initials may spell. 
> When my cousin was naming his first daughter, they wanted Alexis Susan 
> Stoakes, which I had to point out would spell A S S, and they promptly 
> changed the middle name, smile.
>
> Sincerely,
> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> Read my blog at:
> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>
> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>
> Message: 15
> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:34:01 -0700
> From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Baby names
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> Some of the names I love include:
>
> Boys names
> Dawson, meaning "son of David"
> Gideon
> Preston
> Levi
> Grant
> Avery
> Denning
>
> Girls
> Valerie
> Laura
> Theresa
> Emerald
> Daphne
> Sierra
> Vienna
>
> I love reading the names you all have been sharing.
>
> Erin
>
>
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