http://www.usrepresented.com/2015/04/02/naming-children-for-life/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 03:43:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 http://www.usrepresented.com/2015/04/02/naming-children-for-life/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 21:44:40 +0000 http://www.usrepresented.com/?p=25167#comment-140 I agree that one’s name shapes one’s destiny. I remember being the last person on the attendance list in school, and the teacher would get to my name and pause, waiting for me to fill in the blank, rather than risk embarrassment by saying it wrong. I find your point of teachers treating kids with mainstream names better than kids with non-traditional ones interesting, as does my husband Darcy. We have both grown up with our share of judgement for or against us because of our names. One girl when I was quite small called me “what’s-your-face” because she couldn’t remember my name. Yeah, names shape who we are.

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