Dear Care and Feeding: My Child Wants to Call Themself a New Name. Do I Have to Accept It?

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Dear Care and Feeding: My Child Wants to Call Themself a New Name. Do I Have to Accept It?
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My child swears up and down that they are still the same person—but if that’s true, why do I need to call them something different?

., a clinical associate professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville: nonfunctionality , universality , irreversibility , and inevitability . The article also notes—and I mention this in response to your wondering where on earth this obsession came from—that adults often don’t realize, because we’re so inured to it, that children areby death. There is death in fairy tales, in cartoons and movies . The leaves on the trees die every autumn; bugs die every day.

They’ve figured out that “everybody dies,” but they exempt themselves: Death is for other people, or it’s an abstract concept. It’s only at 9 or 10 that they first begin to understand fully that death is irreversible and that they too will die someday.

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