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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Zahna Eklund

'My daughter gets bullied over her 'grandma' name - I told her I hate it too'

Naming your child is a big decision for any parent, and in most cases, you're choosing the name that your little one is going to use for the rest of their life - so it's not something that should be taken lightly.

But one dad has split opinion online as he admitted he told his six-year-old daughter that he "never liked" her name after she came home from school in tears because some other kids were teasing her over it.

The dad explained his daughter's name is Mildred and said that while he "fought" against the name when his wife was pregnant, she was determined to give her daughter the moniker so overruled him.

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