...Oh brother, they named their kid what?!?-Part 2

"Your son's name is Hayden? My son's name is Kayden!" - an exchange that was overheard between two moms at the community pool the other day.

I won't go into explicit detail about why I find the above two names annoying, they just are to me. Something about them just doesn't sound real or grounded in family history. Kayden??? Huh???

Tonight I read two blurbs on the subject of bad names, and felt compelled to write something about it and carry on with my previous rant on kids' names.

From the SFGate.com newspaper website, there was a write up in the "Daily Dish" section of the site, that dishes out gossip and stories about celebrities. One item was on Chris Martin, the lead singer of the band "Coldplay", and the reasoning behind the naming of his two kids, Apple and Moses. Ok, the names are bit a quirky and New Age-y, and they really seem to annoy me because I'm thinking, "What were Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin thinking when they named their kids that? They seem to be smart people!" I guess it's because they can, just like every parent can, when it comes to naming kids. As far as Chris Martin goes, he doesn't see any fuss in any of it, and according to him, his kids' names might as well be "noise", as in "Hey 'Noise'", because to him a name is just a noise that one speaks. Huh? For more on Chris Martin, read here: "Chris Martin Defends 'Unusual' Baby Names".

In another article from "Parents" magazine, there was a whole advice-type article titled "What Your Doctor, Babysitter, Preschool Teacher (And All The Other Pros In Your Life) Really Want You To Know." Under "The Parenting Expert", their advice to the question of what rule no parent should violate, it's bad kids names. The expert says:

"Don't give your child an annoying name. Especially, do not name your kid after a character in a movie. Nobody wants to end up being named Morpheus because his dad was really into 'The Matrix'. That's just plain idiotic." - P. 96, Parents Magazine, July 2008

Ha! I felt somewhat vindicated in reading that tonight. I usually don't get upset about most things, but as I stated in my earlier post about kids names, bad kids names are simply my pet peeve.