And while sometimes it may look like a small thing, there are people who take this seriously. You know, a funny story, once I got called a shortened version of my name that I hated and I just started crying. So yeah, sometimes people take it seriously.
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However in school, her Spanish teacher insisted on calling her ‘Alejandra’ as a Spanish version of her name
Despite the teenager’s corrections, the teacher ignored it, thus that’s when the mother decided to interfere
She contacted the teacher and asked her to call her daughter Alexandra if it’s not that big of a deal for her
Community members gave the author the ‘Not the A-hole’ badge and discussed that OP was right to back her daughter up, but there were also opinions that it was not that big of a deal after all. “Just in case there was any doubt, my best friend is a John who has lived in Italy for twenty years, and nobody has ever – not once(!) – called him Giovanni,” one user wrote. “This is a prime example of how parents have become overbearing and exhausting,” another contradicted.
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Bored Pandagot in touch with Samantha, who is a parental blogger and founder ofWalking Outside in Slippers. She kindly agreed to share her insights regarding the importance of parents advocating for their children, when children should handle conflicts on their own and potential risks of always advocating for kids’ preferences.
“My daughter’s name is Josie, pronounced Jos-see, but people frequently mispronounce it Jos-zee. I don’t often say something when that happens because I understand the error, but it does bug me,” she shares. She states that she can appreciate a parent defending the correct pronunciation of their child’s name, but this situation seems a bit different. “Even so, I believe a teacher should respect the wishes of a child and parent when it comes to name pronunciation,” she added.
Now, speaking about situations when parents should allow their children to handle conflicts independently, Samantha shares that from her experience, empowering children to do that is important to their personal and social growth. However, some issues rise above their ability to handle. So, long story short, it’s on parents to use judgment on when and how to step it and help their child resolve conflict.
And finally, the parental blogger emphasizes that consistently jumping in to solve problems for a child isn’t doing them the service of teaching them independence and self advocacy. “You want to teach your children to resolve their own issues, which will be a tool they can use throughout their lives,” she states.
Redditors had different opinions, though mostly folks wrote that teacher was in the wrong
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