Re: WDYT of nicknames, and help choosing a nickname... EDITED to add link
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Re: Using a different name at school. My niece, Greta, decided when she started kindergarten that she wanted to be called Margaret in school. She likes her family to call her Greta still, but felt like she should use her formal name in school. She made an announcement to our family; it was pretty cute. It's only confusing when, at her birthday parties, everyone in the family sings "Happy birthday, dear Greta" and her schoolmates say "Margaret."
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Aw, that is cute to think of a kindergartener doing that! I'll be interested to see what Meg will choose to do with her name. She already knows that her name is actually Margaret and will respond with that when asked what her name is. But she obviously doesn't really get it yet! Ben struggled a lot with the full name/nick name concept, up through last year even.