What’s in a name?
Hello Everyone,
Now that I’m a parent, I’m more aware of things. I’ve noticed children more, usually trying to guess their age in my mind. An obnoxious screaming child no longer enrages me, it gives me sympathy for the parent. I hope that my little Hannah is a well behaved girl, and my wife and I are already planning to take steps with teaching her these lessons.
One thing that always caught my eye is that people love to give their poor offspring really stupid names. It’s as if there’s a secret club I’m unaware of, or perhaps an unsaid competition to see who can mock their son or daughter the best.
Demi Moore started the trend with the ridiculous names for her three daughters. I still can think of Gwenyth Paltrow’s Apple as a real winner. And by winner I mean for giving her poor unsuspecting daughter such a stupid name Paltrow should be shot. Posh and Becks named their first born after the city he was conceived in. (Can’t imagine if that will need therapy ten years from now.) Brad and Angelina just had twins and they were given 2 stupid names each and we all know it was the mother who gave them. Men are practical about these sort of things.
Well the good news is…In New Zealand a young child given such a horribly stupid name has been saved by a judge with a kind heart, a smart head, and the knowledge that growing up is hard enough when you don’t already have a name the other children can mock you with. The child in question was given the name, I s**t you not, Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii.
Who the hell gives their kid such a stupid name? I understand freedom of speech and expression and what not, but to be so cruel as to force a moniker like that on your own kid… I think it’s evil. The judge agreed with me; “It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap,” he said.
The girl herself hated the name if that wasn’t indication enough her parents need a smack up side the head. Well here’s my source article so you can read for yourself.
I noticed a trend in government bureaucrats getting their noses involved and I say good! I once read that somewhere in Japan (I think) a child was named demon or devil and that was blocked. A name in my old stomping ground Quebec was blocked as well and more of these parents need to be stopped.
Myself, I have a last name which lends itself to some serious silly names for my offspring, and while I might joke about doing such a thing, in the real world I would never do that to a child. Teasing and ridicule is common on the playground and for a parent to so willingly offer ammunition to their child’s tormentors is cruel and sends the wrong message.
As parents are job is to protect our children from all sort of nastiness, and that’s not just the skinned knees, bad dreams and boo-boo’s I expect is due my Hannah’s way. I need to teach her self control, discipline and pride and that will not happen if she’s named Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii. I don’t understand how any parent would so easily mock their own child in this fashion.
So I say here and now, all names should be approved by a special committee and all parents need to grow up and stop acting like a 5 year old who offers the name of “Poopy-Head” to his newly expected baby sister.
I bid adieu,
your Origami reporter,
L.Manly
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