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December 2010 Moms
jillybean800
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A's nickname
jillybean800
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One of A's first words when he looked at a pic of himself or himself in the mirror was "Zaza" which is his interpretation of Alexander. Since then, we have kind of taken to calling him Zaza a lot, and even the grandparents do it too. Do you think this summer we should try to get him to call himself Alexander? He is going to preschool in Sept, and to be honest, I feel a little silly telling the teachers to call him Zaza lol. He also repsonds to Alexander, because when I do call him that half the time.
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Re: A's nickname
Unless you want him to go by "Za Za" forever, I would really start pushing the "Alexander." I would even go as far as having him practice introducing himself to his stuffed animals. It's going to behard for the kids to say the word "Alexander" too, so they may still use a shortened version or the same nickname, but if it's important to you, I would start to push it now.
One of my first grader's gmas told me his name was Turtle on back to school night! Ummm, no. He was called his actual name all year at school. I have a feeling he'd still be Turtle at school if I had allowed it, which might cute as a preschooler, but not so much in college! If you don't want him going by the nickname forever in public, best to limit it's use now.
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Alexander is a hard name to say, so I wouldn't be pushy about him calling himself something different. Zaza is cute, but I wouldn't reinforce it by the general public calling him that instead of it just being a cute family thing.
I would keep the nickname for home, but intro him at school as Alexander.
Currently DS is calling himself Anthony Spencer. His teacher asked MH if he had a different last name as us b/c he told them that was his name. Spencer is one of the trains on Thomas. Clearly we need to practice our actual last name with him!
This sounds similar to when you ask Alexander where he lives, and he replies "The Island of Sodor."
That is awesome!!! I'm dying here.