We are considering buying a new house and I am finding it so distracting. I am sitting here trying to pick a letter to answer but instead I am thinking only about various house-related things.<\/p>\n
Here is what I thought we might try. What if today we did MINI posts in the comments section? That is, anyone who has a name-related question they can ask rather briefly (asking for a vote among a few names, or asking one question, or asking for feedback on how people perceive a particular name, or asking if two names go together—that sort of thing, but not a complicated multi-layered situation that requires eight paragraphs and is looking for answers to lots of different questions) can post it in the comments section, and then interested commenters can cruise the comments section and answer any of them they want to? I wonder if that would be fun, or if it would be messy and overwhelming? LET’S FIND OUT. I think it would be especially charming if question-askers ended up making the rounds answering each other’s questions!<\/p>\n
Everyone is generally so good about this I don’t know if I even need to remind—but I remind MYSELF of this pretty regularly, so I will go ahead and remind you as well that the goal is helpfulness and kindness and working with what the questioner is looking for: that is, it is not about what WE PERSONALLY prefer (unless of course that is what we are being asked) but about finding the right name for the preferences of the parents asking the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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