[HPFGU-OTChatter] Nicknames for kids

[Richelle Votaw]

Amanda wrote:

> My daughter Catherine (which *does* get misspelled a lot) goes by the Polish
> diminutive of Kasia, and for some totally unremembered reason, I have always
> called her Kasia the Boo. Kasia Boo. Or just Boo. Probably from my brother
> visiting when she was a baby; he calls babies "boobooheads." Hey, he calls
> *me* Bar. I'm *related* to these people.

Well, I don't have any in utero nicknames to share, but I have to jump in with some of my students nicknames last year.  I had two girls with completely different names who liked to be called Lucy.  Neither of them had names remotely resembling Lucy.  Neither of whom I called Lucy.  Kids from other classes called them that.  So when one of them was in trouble all the student knew to tell the office was "Lucy did it."  And when they buzzed my room and asked for Lucy, I had to ask which one.  The only help they could give was another nickname--Macaroni.  Who on earth would call a child Macaroni?  Even as a nickname?  Of course there was also a Jun-Jun (short for Junior).  Nicknames make for a great deal of confusion at school!

Richelle 


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