It is a special moment when your child first says her name. I still remember the midwife in the hospital telling me to call her by her name often so she would understand that it meant her. She was less than a day old then. And now she’s 18 months and two weeks, and she […]
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Given names The significance of names has changed over the ages. In Ancient Rome, so I have read, they stopped bothering about first names for girls at some point. In Eastern Frisia, my granny’s home, children would receive the same names over and over again from generation to generation, and if in those big families […]
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