A father took to Reddit to ask if he was wrong for breaking baby name tradition in his family when it came to naming his son after his mother told him he has ‘stupidly named kids’.
Picking a baby name isn’t easy
Picking a name for your child certainly isn’t an easy task. Regardless of the one you pick, it’s almost impossible to please everyone.
Although a baby’s name should be a decision between partners, one father caused a stir within his family for his and his wife’s choice.
He disregarded a family tradition
In his Reddit post, the dad explained that his family has a tradition of naming newborns after the grandparents.
So the options for his son’s name were expected to be Jack or Parker.
They named him something different
Instead, the poster and his wife decided to name their son Hollis, breaking his family’s naming tradition.
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Explaining his reasoning behind this, the dad said that his wife’s family doesn’t have any naming traditions, and he didn’t want to impose.
He also personally didn’t like the tradition
The dad went on to say that he felt it wouldn’t be fair to impose his family’s tradition on his wife and son, especially since he wasn’t a particularly big fan of the tradition himself.
His mother, however, was upset, harshly labeling the chosen name the ‘worst name imaginable’.
He shared the interaction
The dad wrote, “She told me we had no business breaking a long-held tradition in our family and there’s a reason those traditions are there so foolish people can’t name their babies the worst names imaginable.”
“She also said my in-laws must be so smug thinking they’ll have at least two ‘stupidly named grandkids’ like they had all ‘stupidly named kids’.”
The father lost his cool
Continuing on with what happened next, the father said he lost his cool, with his mother telling him to ‘shut up’ and her getting upset at his ‘rudeness’.
Having posted asking people if he was in the wrong, most were quick to rally behind the dad.
People said his mother had no right to be angry
Users under the dad’s post said his mother had no authority over the name of his baby.
One person wrote, “If your mother wants to have a say in naming a baby, then she should have another baby. She was unnecessarily rude and disrespectful to you, your wife, your in-laws, and your child.”
Another said not their kid not their decision
Another user said, “It’s as simple as this: if the kid isn’t theirs, they don’t get to decide the name. If they have a naming tradition, it doesn’t matter. It’s still not their kid, so it’s not their decision.”
