If you were given a lengthy first name, it's not unusual for you to adopt a nickname that people can call you instead - after all, there are plenty of Daniels who go by Dan, and Jennifers who like to be called Jen for short. But one girl who has decided to take up a nickname as her commonly used moniker has been branded "disrespectful" by her mum for doing so - as she believes she should honour the full name she and the girl's father picked out. The mum explained that she doesn't mind if her daughter uses a nickname, but she's at her wit's end over the issue because the girl is now refusing to answer to her full name at all, and will correct her mum every time she's referred to by the longer version of her moniker. The mum finds her daughter's behaviour 'disrespectful' (stock photo) ( Getty Images/iStockphoto) In a post on Reddit, the mum - who did not specify her daughter's age - said it was "embarrassing" to be corrected by her daughter while introducing her to new people, and admitted she's "tired" of the youngster treating the name she picked for her as a "dirty word". She wrote: "My daughter goes by a nickname that's a shorter version of her full first name, like Becky instead of Rebecca (fake name but you get the idea). "I don't mind that she does that, but I'm getting tired of the way she corrects me when I introduce her. I use her full name because that's the name her dad and I gave her, and I don't consider the nickname her real name. "But when I introduce her, she'll immediately correct me as if I called her a dirty word or something. Then she acts cold and distant toward me. "It's really embarrassing because whoever I'm trying to introduce her to sees her disrespecting me like that and it puts a damper on the whole mood. "It happened again){kind=link}
A mum has been left at her wit’s end after her daughter decided to ditch the name she gave her in favour of using a nickname instead – as she finds it ‘disrespectful’
If you were given a lengthy first name, it’s not unusual for you to adopt a nickname that people can call you instead – after all, there are plenty of Daniels who go by Dan, and Jennifers who like to be called Jen for short.
But one girl who has decided to take up a nickname as her commonly used moniker has been branded “disrespectful” by her mum for doing so – as she believes she should honour the full name she and the girl’s father picked out.
The mum explained that she doesn’t mind if her daughter uses a nickname, but she’s at her wit’s end over the issue because the girl is now refusing to answer to her full name at all, and will correct her mum every time she’s referred to by the longer version of her moniker.
In a post on Reddit, the mum – who did not specify her daughter’s age – said it was “embarrassing” to be corrected by her daughter while introducing her to new people, and admitted she’s “tired” of the youngster treating the name she picked for her as a “dirty word”.