Seven Thoughts About: Names
From Waking Up Daddy, Jason Roth's account of nine months of pregnancy and the insane first year of parenthood.
- We haven’t thought of any baby names yet. But as a future anti-bullying measure, I’m ruling out Venus, Chuck, Britt, Bliss, Tass, Myna, Rube, Mott, and Balzac.
- The scrap heap of second best. The junk pile of second choices. The consolation prize for spouses everywhere. Ah, yes . . . baby’s middle name.
- We finally made a decision about names! We’re going to give our kid one. Maybe two.
- Rule of thumb for child naming: if a name requires a nickname for the mere enablement of human conversation, it’s time to chop some syllables.
- There goes that name. Thanks a lot, hurricane.
- If we weren’t having a girl, our kid’s name would have been Jason the Great the Second.
- Everyone with the same name as our future daughter must hereby promise to avoid becoming a serial killer or releasing a sex video.
