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Baby Nicknames - The Good, The Bad, The Embarrassing

by Sandy Maple, Posted Feb 19th 2009 9:00AM

When I was in middle school, a new girl named Binky moved into the neighborhood. Of course, Binky was not the name listed on her birth certificate, but an homage to her extreme attachment to her pacifier as a child. And there she was, in seventh ...
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What's in a (nick)name?

by Nicole Teed, Posted Feb 22nd 2008 12:30PM

Naming a person is a really big deal. HUGE. With both of my pregnancies, my husband and I labored over the process of choosing names for our children. We were never attached to the idea of a family name, because -- while our ancestors offer up some ...
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Silly nicknames for baby?

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Jan 5th 2008 10:53AM

As you may know from reading my posts my husband and I often refer to my son as Mr. Pickles. We've been calling him this since before he was born, in addition to at least twenty other "pet" or nicknames. It's not that we don't like his real name, ...
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Losing the nickname for the sake of the teen

by Amey Stone, Posted Jan 31st 2007 2:31PM

My kids have always had a few nicknames, none of them have been too horrible so they have stuck throughout the years. However, with the arrival of Devon and his grasp, or lack of it, on language. we have all acquired a new set of names. In honor of ...
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