Appropriate Nicknames for Kids

[Helen Bedd]

While I was out the other day I heard a lady call her kid 'Gomer' and it just seemed weird. I have all kinds off nicknames for my kid, Pumpkin, Munchkin and things like that, but Gomer? I just couldn't do it. It just seems wrong to me. I've also heard things like Dum Dum and Little Bugger. What's next, Little *$&#er? Is it just me and maybe there's a story or something behind it? Or am I right thinking those seem wrong?

[nickerjones]

my wife uncle is named bobby and growing up they called him Boob..... now boob has a son names lil bobby who is endearly named lil boobie hahaha

[Locke]

I dunno. I encourage nicknames on the soccer team I coach because it usually helps lift team spirit, but you do have to have a line in the sand.

[Ford Prefect]

I think nicknames are fun, but I hate mushy-gushy ones like "Sweet Ums" and stuff like that. When my son was a baby and up until he was about 4 or 5 I called him Gump, cause he looked like a baby Gump Worsley. Before he was born I called him Festus The Fetus, and our daughter was Emily The Embryo. The only post-partem nickname I've had for my daughter is Dogger, a child-of-unwed-parents-ization of daughter. I've also called my son Mini-Me, cause he is.

[Slava]

I sometimes call my kids "little bugger", but I suppose in hindsight its a little bit wrong. I just think that the context is different though, and from years of playing "silly buggers" (touch rugby) I guess I don't think much of it.

[arsenal]

accident

[Radio]

As a kid I didn't care for them, my dad used to call me boo. Now that I am older and have kids of my own I think they're almost essential. I mean we have nicknames for everyone..family..friends..co-workers..if you don't have one you don't really feel part of the group..IMO anyway.

My wife calls our son Boo, I tend to call him Little Man or Magoo. Our daughter we call Loo after Cindy Loo Who from the grinch.

[Dion]

Have a friend whose mom still cals him "Spanky"

[Crispy's Critter]

"when I was a kid, I always thought my nickname was Jesus Christ, because my parents would always yell stuff like "Jesus Christ, take your muddy boots off in the house!"

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Seriously though, I had a couple nicknames growing up. One was Mort, or Mortimer (not sure why), and the other was Little Piggy, because I was a messy eater. Not sure either of them really had any adverse effects on my psyche, so even though one was kind of a put-down, I don't think they were that bad. But I can see the point of having to be careful using the derogative kind of nickname, like always using it with a loving kind of tone, rather than in anger. Guess it's up to the parent and how they use the name.

[underGRADFlame]

My nickname growing up was hoser... my dad still calls me it to piss me off.

[Locke]

I had a kid show up to a soccer game with his emo eyeshadow still on. By the end of the game the stuff was just dripping down his face looking like a clown's eyelashes, and thus he earned the nickname 'Lashes.' After his emo tendencies started getting a bit too much the team started changing his nickname to 'slashes,' which was across my 'line in the sand.'

We also have another kid that got monikered as 'jackass' which I was going to put a stop to, but he actually likes it so I let it go.

[stuck_in_chuk]

I once heard a woman call her son a "son of a bitch" at a mall - I found that kind of funny. The kid probably agreed fully.

Mine were: Pumpkin (from Married with Children) and Spazz.

[Flamesguy_SJ]

My dad called me "Beavis" or "Beav" till I was around 12...naturally, my older brother was known as "Butthead", so it definitely could have been worse. That's about the only nickname I've ever had, apart from being known by my last name through high school.

[NuclearFart]

Haha gomer? That's a medical derogatory term for Get Out Of My Emergency Room, used to describe the super annoying "repeat customers". It's from the book the House of God.

[Reggie Dunlop]

If you name is Helen Bedd you could call your kid "Wetda."

[BuzzardsWife]

Mine was Pebbles growing up, after Pebbles flinstone, Now I am called something else, my entire family have nicknames, we even had nicknames for our parents, still do for my dad. I very rarely call him dad. Only my one sister and brother don't have nicknames..don't know why. All my nieces and nephews have them except for one as well. I don't know how they get started, but we are the nickname family. Both my kids do to.

[V]

I've also called my daughter (3 yo now) "Goof" or "Goofball". She seems ok with it.

My one year old son is "Big Guy".

As for the OP, who cares if you think it's wrong. I do plenty of things with my kids that people would consider wrong (they gotta earn their keep!). You can have your own damn kids and deal with them as you so choose.

[Barnes]

I laugh everytime I hear someone call a kid lil bugger.

The word bugger and buggery are still commonly used in modern English as a profanity, and "buggery" is also synonymous with anal sex.
The word "bugger" was derived, via the French "bougre", from "Bulgar", that is, "Bulgarian", meaning the medieval Bulgarian heretical sect of the Bogomils, which spread into Western Europe and was claimed by the established church to be devoted to the practice of sodomy,[9]. "Buggery" first appears in English in 1330, though "bugger" in a sexual sense is not recorded until 1555.[10]

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by Barnes

I laugh everytime I hear someone call a kid lil bugger.

The word bugger and buggery are still commonly used in modern English as a profanity, and "buggery" is also synonymous with anal sex.
The word "bugger" was derived, via the French "bougre", from "Bulgar", that is, "Bulgarian", meaning the medieval Bulgarian heretical sect of the Bogomils, which spread into Western Europe and was claimed by the established church to be devoted to the practice of sodomy,[9]. "Buggery" first appears in English in 1330, though "bugger" in a sexual sense is not recorded until 1555.[10]

! I was going to post this pretty much verbatum until I made it to the bottom of the thread.