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in reply to a message by Jewel
I live in the midwestern U.S.
The answer to all your questions is: it varies. Some people choose a nn for the child before he or she is born and insist that family friends, relatives, and new aquaintances call the child by only that name. Others wait until the child is here to decide if they want to call them by a name related nn, or a non-name related nn (like Bubba, Missy, Buddy [these are not necessarily pet names, as I know people that go by them basically all the time]), or if the baby will go by his or her full name.
Sometimes a child will pick his or her own nn [or resist a nn] and insist that parents and company call him that. My brother constantly tells people that his name is not Steve, it is Steven.
I choose names that have nn that I like, just in case my future child wants to go by a nn, but I also have to like the formal name because I do not want to call my child something that I hate. But I won't ever insist that my baby go by a name that he or she hates.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
The answer to all your questions is: it varies. Some people choose a nn for the child before he or she is born and insist that family friends, relatives, and new aquaintances call the child by only that name. Others wait until the child is here to decide if they want to call them by a name related nn, or a non-name related nn (like Bubba, Missy, Buddy [these are not necessarily pet names, as I know people that go by them basically all the time]), or if the baby will go by his or her full name.
Sometimes a child will pick his or her own nn [or resist a nn] and insist that parents and company call him that. My brother constantly tells people that his name is not Steve, it is Steven.
I choose names that have nn that I like, just in case my future child wants to go by a nn, but I also have to like the formal name because I do not want to call my child something that I hate. But I won't ever insist that my baby go by a name that he or she hates.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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