Dear Care and Feeding: I’m really worried about how people will react to it.
Our daughter is bright, kind, and about to start kindergarten. Since she was old enough to speak, she’s gone by a nickname. She chose it herself—it’s based on her given name—and has been adamant that it’s what she wants to be called. We love her autonomy, and we love her nickname! It’s spunky, sweet, and unique. However, I’m really worried about how people will react to it.
She has almost exclusively gone by the nickname Beo . Over the years we’ve had people make comments/ask about it, shocked that we would name our child “B.O.”—which of course we didn’t. As she enters elementary school, we know it’s only a matter of time before she gets questions or teased about it. It seems like a natural time to have her start going by a different name, at least at school . The problem is, she’s never heard the phrase B.O.
Is it better for us to be the ones to tell her, and then she can decide if she still wants to use it? Or do we wait for someone else to do it and then she’ll ask why we didn’t tell her? Maybe she would decide it’s worth it , but we kind of feel like she should know and be able to make that decision on her own. On the other hand, it breaks our hearts to think of telling our fantastic kid that this is what many people think of when they hear her name. Help! School starts in three weeks.
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