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I'm not the "child-raising" sort, but this kind of makes me wonder... is it possible for anyone to grow up "normal" these days? How were children raised - or more to the point, how did we view child-raising - before the advent of modern psychology?

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I'm not the "child-raising" sort, but this kind of makes me wonder... is it possible for anyone to grow up "normal" these days? How were children raised - or more to the point, how did we view child-raising - before the advent of modern psychology?

name stuff

"You know, I'm really starting to think these folks think words are just a series of sounds bereft of meaning." (http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/5.html , somewhere nearish the bottom)

Well.. not "bereft of meaning", but maybe having different meaning than the standard? (Then again, surmounting an established meaning is something else again.)

I clicked a link off baxil's journal today and found a survey for evaluating whether one's RPG character was reasonably original or not, and one of the criteria was whether its name contained certain (common) elements: moon, rain, fire... Anyway, judging by that, a name such as "ivy nightseed" (let's never mind how ridiculous it sounds on its own) would lose mass points. And even though I don't necessarily set store by such, I figure that it's a reasonable gauge of how "others in general" would perceive such a name. I definitely don't want to be thought of as "cheesy" (especially since I'm already at a disadvantage because of... various things).

name stuff

"You know, I'm really starting to think these folks think words are just a series of sounds bereft of meaning." (http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/5.html , somewhere nearish the bottom)

Well.. not "bereft of meaning", but maybe having different meaning than the standard? (Then again, surmounting an established meaning is something else again.)

I clicked a link off baxil's journal today and found a survey for evaluating whether one's RPG character was reasonably original or not, and one of the criteria was whether its name contained certain (common) elements: moon, rain, fire... Anyway, judging by that, a name such as "ivy nightseed" (let's never mind how ridiculous it sounds on its own) would lose mass points. And even though I don't necessarily set store by such, I figure that it's a reasonable gauge of how "others in general" would perceive such a name. I definitely don't want to be thought of as "cheesy" (especially since I'm already at a disadvantage because of... various things).

names continued

Yanno, I keep reading this site that complains about stupid baby names and I keep finding myself saying, "so what's so wrong with that seemingly semi-random sequence of syllables"? I agree that some of them are just tease-fodder (having been the victim of name-teasing myself in grade school, even with the benefit of a normal enough name), but aside from that, I don't see what's wrong with giving a child a name that's unlikely to appear in any baby-book, and not that unlikely to appear in a fantasy novel (given that it's not actually taken from such - see above about other cruel kids not recognizing it)...?

names continued

Yanno, I keep reading this site that complains about stupid baby names and I keep finding myself saying, "so what's so wrong with that seemingly semi-random sequence of syllables"? I agree that some of them are just tease-fodder (having been the victim of name-teasing myself in grade school, even with the benefit of a normal enough name), but aside from that, I don't see what's wrong with giving a child a name that's unlikely to appear in any baby-book, and not that unlikely to appear in a fantasy novel (given that it's not actually taken from such - see above about other cruel kids not recognizing it)...?