Let Your Children Name the New Baby

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Choosing a baby name is an important job, so make your children feel
important by letting them help you name the new baby. After all,
you're not the only one who's having a baby - your whole family is !
Use the process of naming the baby as an opportunity to get your other
children involved in and excited about their new brother or sister,
and make the process fun. Try a little humor, with wild list-making
sessions that may eventually lead you to the perfect baby name that
will fill that vacant space on your family tree.
Here are some of the points, both serious and silly, that you can
encourage your children to consider when sifting through the thousands
of possible baby names that are floating around out there. I've added
a few sample names, from appropriate to absurd, to make your children
laugh and enjoy the name choosing process, and to get your whole
family thinking.
First of all, don't choose a first name that is so odd and unusual
that, as your child grows up, his or her friends will endlessly make
fun of it. Perhaps "Sassafras" or "Tintinabulation" are not the best
name choices. On the other hand, you may not want a name that is so
common that every third child in the playground has it, too. Of
course, what is "too common" changes every few years. When I was a
child in the early 1960s, every other kid answered if someone called
out "Bobby" or "Joey."...

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