by Laura Falin posted in Life

I think one of the most stressful decisions you have to make as a new parent is naming your baby.
Sure, it may not affect their health or well-being or long-term character development (or...does it"), but it's a decision that will follow them for the rest of their lives. And everyone has an opinion on the matter.
Now, on top of all of that, a survey of over 2,000 grandparents on Gransnet found that 1 in 5 grandparents can't stand the names parents choose for their children. There were the usual objections -- that the kids' names were too hard to pronounce, or odd, or "made-up." But others were upset that their suggestions weren't used, or that a family name had been passed over. Some just think the names are plain ugly. One grandma complained that her granddaughter's name -- Elsie -- sounded old-fashioned like "an old lady with droopy drawers."
The surprising thing is that a lot of these names are common ones -- even ones on the BabyCenter list of most popular names of 2017. You can see the entire list of names they disliked here (Charlotte"" Who could hate Charlotte" It's a princess name, for heavens' sake).
I was talking about this study with some of the other BabyCenter writers, and one mentioned that she avoided any grandparental objections by naming her kids after the grandparents themselves (brilliant). We, on the other hand, had two grandmas who were both teachers...and anyone who has been a ...