As for family giving your children a nickname you don't want, I feel for you, but we never let it happen. In part, we gave our kids first names that did not really have established nicknames (like Jim for James, or Peggy for Margaret, etc.). And we always referred to them in conversation by their first names, not initials or other nicknames. And if someone tried using a nickname, we and the child just would not respond to that nickname, forcing them to get the idea that the proper first name had to be used. It helped that we lived hundreds of miles away from immediate family, and didn't see or talk to them but once every few weeks, so it was easy for my wife and I to habit-form our kids to only responding to the name we wanted them to respond to. But it worked.
Of course, now one of our kids is transgender and has changed his name, so we're having to acclimate family to calling him by his chosen name and pronoun. Not an easy task.Statistics: Posted by Tahlvin — Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:15 am
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