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Who else has a DC with a double first name, and how do you address this?

californiafrog7905californiafrog7905
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So we're meeting tons of different people (well, not tons, but you know what I mean...!) in Orlando now, and without exception every single one of them, when I tell them my daughter's name is Hannah CLAIRE, insists on referring to her as Hannah. 

I'm going to go insane, just from this one thing.  Guess we set ourselves up for it, though, didn't we? :)

Problem is, it IS the name we gave her, legally and everything, and that's what I want her to be called.  Her new daycare "teachers" even called her Hannah today when we visited, and I hate to be rude to them, but I have GOT to get people to say her name right!

So, what's a polite but firm way to tell folks that my kid's name is, in fact, Hannah Claire, and that's what she's called by her parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and everyone else, and that's that? 

 

In other news: I posted on the 12-24 board about said child turning into the child from Hell lately.  Ugh.  Not worth repeating verbatim but she's into the pinching, kicking, dropping food stage.  HATE IT.

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Re: Who else has a DC with a double first name, and how do you address this?

  • MrsNash05MrsNash05
    No babies for me yet, but I want to do a double name for our future daughter.  As a teacher, I would want a parent to let me know if I don't have the correct name.  I promise they won't be offended! 
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  • K&P414K&P414 member

    I think it's fine to just say, 'Actually, she has a double name, Hannah Claire" when someone just calls her Hannah.  Especially with Daycare people or people you're going to be around a lot.  

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  • julienandyjulienandy
    Just address it!  We have the opposite problem, I call SC both Sarah and Sarah Cate - and a few other nicknames poor kid, the teachers at her school heard me say SArah and asked me which to call her, I told them SC as that is how i want her called.  in case there are 2 sarahs......  I am sure the teachers  won't be mad. 
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  • donna&eddonna&ed
    We ran into this a lot. People keep calling William Will. I just say William again but I think there's just really nothing that I can do esp if I am not around.
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  • lololocolololoco member

    I would just correct them and say, "actually, we use both names and call her Hannah Claire".

    I have had to tell quite a few people that my daughter is not "Katie", it's "Kate".

    It's just an entirely different name to me. Her real name is Sara Katherine though and her daycare teacher calls her that sometime, but NO ONE else on earth does. hahaha. I let that one go...

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  • ebearwifeebearwife member
    I have name issues, too.  Polly's name is really Penelope.  But I like Polly and that is what I (and most people call her).  Sometimes people say Penelope for whatever reason (someone just out and out told me they didn't "like" Polly - Whatever) but esp at the dr's office.  Well, the other day our nurse was African and he pronounced her name Penny-loh-pee.  I pronounced it correctly for him and he got all offended and said it was just his accent then he was huffy the rest of the visit.  I have asked them to put it in her file that she goes by Polly but I guess they didn't or don't read her file.  In the case where people call her Penelope I tell them she goes by Polly, so its no biggie just to ask people to call her Hannah Claire.  BTW, I always liked HC's name.  Its so pretty to me.
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