Sunday 26 February 2017

6 year old wants his name changed legally. Are we crazy to actually be considering this?


This might get long and confusing but try to stay with me.My husband and I adopted our son about 3.5 years ago. He had a rather unusual name but we decided to keep it. We researched a lot and although the name seemed awfully silly, it felt wrong to take his name from him.His name is the name of a piece of furniture. For the sake of the question, I will use the first name Table. We actually decided to keep his entire name but we just rearranged things to include our surnames. His full name was Table Michael Harrison. My husband and I gave our son both of our last names and made Michael and Harrison both his middle names. Therefore, his name became Table Michael Harrison Smith-Jones. You still with me?He started kindergarten last year and was getting made fun of for his name. I told him that he could use one of his middle names if he preferred that. He decided to use Harrison from that point forward.It took a little while to get everyone on board, but he was in first grade this year and everyone now calls him Harrison.He gets upset any time he sees his actual first name written down on forms. He gets upset when he has a substitute and she calls him Table. He really doesn't like his first name and he said it makes him think of bad things.His 7th birthday is coming up and he asked if we could change his name to Harrison for his birthday present. We told him that we would think about it. Of course, that won't be his only present but it struck me as pretty serious that it was his birthday request.He wants to get ride of Table completely and become Harrison Michael Smith-Jones. Would you let your kid do it.Note: None of the names are real. His first name is after a piece of furniture and the name he wants to use (his former last name, current second middle name) can be used as a first name. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2lVRpBb

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