Congratulations! You have successfully procreated, but you're not quite out of the woods just yet. Naming your child can also be a difficult task.
A word of advice: Keep your wealth of creative individualism to your morning macchiato and away from your nine month investment.
Names like Bristol, Track, Apple, Moses, Tuesday, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Trig, Brewster, Moose, Suri, Mogley, and Link are just simply not acceptable. Just because it looks good in the Bible, on TV, or on your breakfast plate does not give you the right to destroy your child's life.
Think of the repercussions. Name your kid Apple or Track and you can already start booking visits to a shrink through middle school. Stop determining your child's destiny. With a name like Trout, immediately all possibilities for respect are destroyed. At the very best he might amount to a mediocre jazz bass player.
Granted, a name does not define a person, yet the more outrageous the name the more challenging it will be to present yourself in a professional manor.
Stick to the basics.
Keep it simple.
Love,
Falcor.
Walker, Sam, Glen, & Riley
4 comments:
I loved this letter...so true. Me and my roommates were having a conversation about what people think when they name their kids. I had a chef named Dick Dingle. How can parents be so cruel?
When I was watching TV, I saw a name credit that was Eagle Egilsson. So crazy.
I think this letter is incredibly interesting and touches upon a popular trend in America. Does anyone know about other cultures, like France or England? Has the more unique name like China or Trout become more and more the norm? And do you think this is a repeating cycle? Years ago, the name Kat would seem completely bizarre and, in fact, a lot of people (particularly older people) give me a "you've-got-to-be-kidding-me-look when I introduce myself. Is it nature for names, at first, to seem odd but steadily grow into style?
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