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Use of a baby names book in researching for children’s identity has become a common trend with most parents. Prior to delivery, mothers would be seen flipping through pages of popular books like Baby Name Wizard, Beyond Ava & Aiden and Cool Names for Babies among others in search of the best names for their new born. – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Selection of identities from Baby names book


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Selection of identities from Baby names book the
surprising effects
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  • Use of a baby names book in researching for
    childrens identity has become a common trend
    with most parents. Prior to delivery, mothers
    would be seen flipping through pages of popular
    books like Baby Name Wizard, Beyond Ava Aiden
    and Cool Names for Babies among others in search
    of the best names for their new born.

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  • Something that has never occurred to them however
    is how a random selection of a childs name from
    those books can greatly impact on their childs
    life. Unsuspecting parents innocently pick names
    from these books without any clear criteria only
    to come to regret later in life when the
    identities turn out to haunt their users.

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  • Have you ever sat down to imagine what a random
    selection of names from these books can do to
    your child? You might be surprised to find out
    what effects they might have on their

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Lifetime Career
  • The choice of your childs name can have a
    greater contribution in his lifetime carrier if
    you didnt know. Recent research by Figlio
    revealed that children linguistically feminine
    names were most likely to shy away from math and
    science as compared to their counterparts with
    linguistically androgynous names.

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  • They instead have a compassion for arts and
    history, something that is undoubtedly destined
    to shape their future career paths in life. In
    addition, they can turn out to like languages and
    perform very well in such.

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  • It would, for instance, cost you more struggles
    to nurture your daughter named Anastasia to
    become a doctor as opposed to the other named
    Jordan. So before you complain about your childs
    performance next time, keenly take a look at
    their names and find out its relation to this.

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Conduct and general behavior
  • Your childs name can also greatly impact on his
    general conduct and behavior.as a result, you
    should think twice on selecting girlish names to
    your male babies.

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  • Research has shown that such boys are likely to
    have unnecessary problems in school especially at
    the Middle school level. Names like Jamie,
    Shannon and Courtney for the male gender might
    put your child at risk of behaving contrary to
    your masculine expectation of him.

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  • These names sound great and are often top in the
    baby names book but a second thought is necessary
    before according your baby these identities.
    Seemingly, taking inspiration from artist and
    celebrities in looking for your childs name from
    the books might see them follow their footsteps.
    You will therefore not have anyone to blame if of
    all names in the varied books you opted for one
    whose bearer had questionable characters.

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Peoples Perception and treatment towards them
  • Lastly, the choice of name you give to your child
    can greatly determine how people around him
    handle and treat him. Teachers have been found
    out to treat kids with low status names
    differently. In most cases, they would be
    referred for special classes and the teachers are
    unlikely to recognize their talents based on
    their pre-formed opinions.

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  • Seemingly, their peers and age mates are also
    likely to look down upon them and most often
    tease them. So next time before you settle on an
    identity for your kid, find out more on the names
    from the baby names book and other resources lest
    you make a regrettable decision.
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