What to do when no one can pronounce your child's name correctly. Parents can help the child turn mispronunciations into a journey of pride and understanding by teaching them to be patient and persistent. - ThreadSky

chicagotribune.com • 85 days ago

What to do when no one can pronounce your child's name correctly.

Parents can help the child turn mispronunciations into a journey of pride and understanding by teaching them to be patient and persistent.

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kurtpena.bsky.social•85 days ago

What to do?
Is it my job as a parent to be the pronunciation police?
Or maybe I'm supposed to see it as judgement on my creative naming skills?

handle.invalid•85 days ago

How about don’t name your child some dumb crazy spelled garbage.

mathias.bsky.social•85 days ago

People have been mispronouncing my name for decades

I don't care anymore.
It's easier to respond to whatever they say and not correct them.

Call me Bob.

martin617.bsky.social•85 days ago

It’s cruel to do that to a child; they’ll spend the rest of their lives explaining it to people.

momsthoughts.bsky.social•85 days ago

No one has ever pronounced my last name correctly. And oddly, a lot of people can't pronounce my first name correctly either. Lol My first name is Anne. Lol

chanan.bkbunch.com•85 days ago

Gee. I have no clue…

kimtc.bsky.social•85 days ago

I did naturalization ceremonies for the government and I prided myself on learning the pronunciation of every name I read, because people deserved it.

cynthianevil.bsky.social•85 days ago

And it’s always better to ask, “how do you pronounce your name?” than guess.
And the person knows you see them.

estacia.bsky.social•85 days ago

First, people need to stop giving their kids names with made up spellings

theonetruedoink.bsky.social•85 days ago

I bet muskmelon's kids could help with that!

eb77.bsky.social•85 days ago

Hmm... Slow news day?

kathadalton.bsky.social•85 days ago

This was me! It’s Katha pronounced Kay-tha. Why, mom?? She couldn’t quite explain… (derived from Kæthe ~ why not just leave the beautiful name alone?)

raywoodruff.com•85 days ago

ooof, was this really worth taking the time to write a post and copy/paste the url?

bentoniusrex.bsky.social•85 days ago

One suggestion might be to ask yourself why you gave your child an unpronounceable name in the first place.

goatofdemocracy.bsky.social•85 days ago

Well… if you name your kid Oystepanya and it’s pronounced Kathy… it’s kind of on you.

kersha27369.bsky.social•85 days ago

Why do you hate your children? You trying to be unique will make your child's life hell.

kenyattayamel.bsky.social•85 days ago

Change the name

cynthianevil.bsky.social•85 days ago

Did Elon Musk’s son write this?
Naming your kid X Æ A-12 is just incredibly mean.
There is no pronunciation.

cliffordbanes.bsky.social•85 days ago

It's a tragedeigh when they do that.

atlantaprog.bsky.social•85 days ago

Ya know what?! Name your kid a basic easy to pronounce usual normal name.

Weird names bring on bullying and torment and can cause a lifetime of damage.

John or Susie is perfectly fine.

Jeebus we make things hard that don’t need to be.

shoushai.bsky.social•85 days ago

So basic white name? God forbid we take the time to learn someone’s correctly pronounced name.

bentoniusrex.bsky.social•85 days ago

Fair point. I know people’s names are important to them and deserve respect. What is someone like a teacher to do when it turns out “Breightli” is pronounced “Bayley” because their twee parents were trying too hard to be cute? For example.

shoushai.bsky.social•85 days ago

A novel concept is to ask people how their name is pronounced. I get that there are parents who want to have their child stand out and spell their name differently. How you pronounce Sara depends on the culture, language and the ethnicity of the person.

bentoniusrex.bsky.social•85 days ago

Right, which I did every term, every class.

shoushai.bsky.social•85 days ago

My last name gets mispronounced a lot. I usually smile and say close enough. I don’t loose sleep over it, though I understand it is more sensitive for some.

newsacc.bsky.social•85 days ago

Who is to say what is normal. I have a common name and always had another student or students with the same name. It made it hard the teachers too. My child has an unusual name (and likes it) that is spelled exactly as it sounds and teachers messed it up anyway.

atlantaprog.bsky.social•85 days ago

I’m not hating on unusual names! Talking a little smack. I love mine. But it opened up opportunities for mindless torment from other small kids that I was not equipped to handle. My first name is unique, but hard to mock. My middle name was definitely easy to mock.

Parents picked the middle one. ;)

nash-gab.bsky.social•85 days ago

As someone with a name that was easily to pronounce but a bear to spell correctly, I beg parents to consider what difficulties their kids will face with "tragedeigh" names.

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