Let Your Children Name the New Baby by Barbara Freedman-De Vito

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Let Your Children Name the New Baby
by Barbara Freedman-De Vito

Choosing a baby name is an important job, so make your children feel important by letting them help you name the new baby. After all, you're not the only one who's having a baby - your whole family is ! Use the process of naming the baby as an opportunity to get your other children involved in and excited about their new brother or sister, and make the process fun. Try a little humor, with wild list-making sessions that may eventually lead you to the perfect baby name that will fill that vacant space on your family tree.

Here are some of the points, both serious and silly, that you can encourage your children to consider when sifting through the thousands of possible baby names that are floating around out there. I've added a few sample names, from appropriate to absurd, to make your children laugh and enjoy the name choosing process, and to get your whole family thinking.

First of all, don't choose a first name that is so odd and unusual that, as your child grows up, his or her friends will endlessly make fun of it. Perhaps

Author's Biography:

Visit http://babybirdproductions.com for baby and children's clothing, matching family clothing, and gift idea items for kids decorated with colorful pictures. Many of the pictures come from her animated children's stories, available on her site on CDs. Barbara Freedman-De Vito is a professional storyteller and artist.

Posted on: March 8,2006

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