Parents-to-be spend a lot of time thinking about what their baby’s name is going to be, hoping that it suits their personality and they’ll feel proud to carry it. Putting a whole person’s essence into one word without meeting them is indeed far from easy so when parents finally settle on a name, they expect everyone to respect their decision, even if they don’t find it to their liking.
However, when these parents called their son Elijah, one of the grandmothers blatantly refused to use his real name and even gave him one that, in her opinion, suited him better. The mom was completely flabbergasted by her gall, which pushed her to kick her out of her home.
Scroll down to find the full story and conversation with Alex Anderson-Kahl, a nationally certified school psychologist, and licensed clinical psychologists Dr. Caroline Danda and Dr. Jephtha Tausig, who kindly agreed to tell us more about the importance of calling children by their real names.
