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Help[Opinions] Re: When nicknames go bad
in reply to a message by fishyfishy
Yeah I guess in private its ok. I'm not sure if they use them in public in this case.
I do wonder though how the cutesy nns get stopped as the kids get older. I remember reading a post somewhere, (maybe here, I can't remember) about someone whose son was named Elliott and they called him Ellie. He was about 3 or 4 I think and they were worried about still using the nn when he got to school, because the kids would tease him for having a girl's name. The problem was he loved his nn and didn't want to be called by his full name.
Things like that actually put me off using certain names. For example I really like the name Elliott, but even before reading about that, I had thought of how easy it wold be to slip into using the nn Ellie and how it wouldn't be a great idea considering its popularity with girls.
I do wonder though how the cutesy nns get stopped as the kids get older. I remember reading a post somewhere, (maybe here, I can't remember) about someone whose son was named Elliott and they called him Ellie. He was about 3 or 4 I think and they were worried about still using the nn when he got to school, because the kids would tease him for having a girl's name. The problem was he loved his nn and didn't want to be called by his full name.
Things like that actually put me off using certain names. For example I really like the name Elliott, but even before reading about that, I had thought of how easy it wold be to slip into using the nn Ellie and how it wouldn't be a great idea considering its popularity with girls.
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