I am just back from a series of vacations and road trips, and I am sipping coffee sullenly, preparing to go to the grocery store, and wondering if there will ever be anything fun again. Let’s see if we can think of something fun to do.<\/p>\n
Oh! I know! My mom and I refer to “the mall test” for baby names. It doesn’t have to be the mall: the term comes from the days when we did most of our shopping at the mall (convenient for shopping\/lunching with children in strollers), but it can be anywhere you’re out and about. We noticed that when we heard a name used in public (often in the toddler play area), it sometimes changed our whole feeling about the name. We might think we LOVED a particular name, and then we’d hear a parent calling to their child using that name and realize we didn’t like the name at all. Or it could also happen the other way: we’d hear a parent call out a name we’d never considered before, and suddenly we LOVED the name. (This happened to me with the name Georgia.)<\/p>\n
I recently heard a name used a couple of times by a parent in a waiting room, and then again called out by the nurse, and I wouldn’t have been sure if this name would pass the mall test or not but it DID: Delia.<\/p>\n
Have you had any names pass the mall test recently? (It seems like it would be unkind to list the names we’ve seen fail the mail test.) Any names you hadn’t considered until you heard them used in public, and now you love them? Any names you might have thought you were meh about, or even disliked, but then you heard them in action and changed your mind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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