GC names

Lighten up folks ,isn't there enough misery and sorrow in todays world???
My maiden name was Hicksworth and even after I married a couple of my old school friends still referred to me as 'hickydicky.

I think it's stupid and childish. The sort of thing a young child might do, but not an adult. I should think a lot of children whose friends or siblings do that to them would be annoyed and it would be a form of teasing.

I love nick names.......personalised, close friends or family names, what is wrong with them? If your freinds like them why does it bother you?

They are little crystals of affection that stuck, for a loving reason and that is lovely.

I think FB has a place for such names, as it does for other insider information, people can customise the viewers and it is nice for you to be among their chosen people.............'nauseating' well that is harsh in my opinion.

My DGC are children though so why can't we be childish with them? All my DGC have nicknames. I don't see the problem. They're not upset by them. They're terms of endearment.

My DDs have nicknames too and I still use them sometimes.

If you think I'm stupid and childish then so be it.

When I was teaching, several children who were the children or grandchildren of other staff members were often called by their family nicknames in school. I always found that somewhat creepy. Love the expression "cuddle name" though.

We have Ottbott...Toto....Tilly Bear. ...Daisy Dot. In our family

We don't do that, but Dh still refers to our Son who is 37, and six feet three as " The Cherub" lol he will often say " did the Cherub phone today" etc

Personally I hate it!
Not sweet, cute or nice.
Awful!
Gritting teeth at some of the above 'cute' extra names,Urgh.

Hopehope- the Cherub made me laugh out loud ! I love all these loving names - keep 'em coming !

I like 'cuddle names' too - but maybe not in public.
My unborn DGD, due in October, is presently known as Agent Tiddlesworth.
I hope that doesn't stick when he/she is older!

That should have been DGC - we don't know which flavour baby will appear just yet!

we have 'Izzie Whizzy let's get busy' for our Lizzie and 'lucy locket where's your pocket' for our Lucy. Not sure how these names started, they just evolved within the family!!!

Nannanoo, beware the pre-birth names. We called our first Ethelred the Unready. It clearly affected his personality, he has on his back foot running to catch up ever since.

It's definitely a hazardous exercise using pre-birth names M0nica
Eldest DS was known as 'Fred' before birth - he's forty this month, and still known as Fred, although his given name is Christopher!

Apparently my paternal grandfather called my elder sister Betty Dumps and we can't fathom out why. We never thought to ask parents and said grandfather has been dead since 1948