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Woman Says Her Daughter Has Never Met Her Dad. However, His Relatives Routinely See Her and Refuse to Call Her by Name
A mother is fed up with the family of her daughter's father refusing to call the 2-year-old girl by her Irish name
She explained in a post on Mumsnet that they refer to her young child as "the wee one," while blaming their inability to spell the name
The mom shared that her daughter is named "Caoimhe (keeva)"A mother is on the verge of confronting the family of her daughter's father about their refusal to use the child's birth name.
The mom explained on the UK-based forum Mumsnet that the father of her 2-year-old daughter is 'not in the picture,' but his family sees the young girl almost every other week. She said her child has an Irish name that's 'probably one of the harder' ones to spell and pronounce.
The mother said she 'immediately' learned how to spell it and has no concerns that the name could be an issue for her daughter in the future. She added that her 'unique' name and that of her two older children are sometimes misspelled, but eventually people learn to spell them.
'My issue is that her relatives (not mine) refuse to learn how to spell it and just refer to her as 'the wee one,' ' the mother said of her toddler's name. 'I easily picked up on this in their texts and didn't think too much of it.
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'Accepted it really, but then, her Grandmother said to me 'oh he (her partner) saw a woman holding a child at the end of the road and stopped and said he thought it was Bella5C and the wee one,' ' the mom continued. 'She obviously heard herself as she then said to me when leaving, I call her the wee one because I don't know how to spell her name?'
The mom confessed that she thinks the relatives are refusing to call her daughter by name because they don't like it.
'I can understand not spelling it in a text if you think you'll spell it wrong but to not say her name out loud and use that excuse is surely, a load of crap? Just looking for opinions really, although I may eventually say something,' she said.
Many commenters reassured the mother that it isn't uncommon for people to refer to children as 'the wee one' until they're able to confidently pronounce and spell a child's name.
'I refer to lots of children as 'wee one'. Covers all eventualities, zero risk of it being wrong,' one person wrote.
'I think 'wee one' etc is a lot more common than you might think and probably nothing to do with the name,' another said.
'Buy dd a T-shirt or bag with her name.... Has she seen dd's [dear daughter's] name written down? Maybe she genuinely can't spell it and is too embarrassed to say,' a third chimed in.
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Having also received many questions about the child's name, the mother decided to share that 'it's Caoimhe (keeva).' The revelation sparked many more comments from people admitting they would be puzzled about how to pronounce it.
One person said, 'In Ireland, there is no 'correct' way to say Caoimhe, it depends on the accent whether it is like Keeva or Kweeva and it sounds pretty bad with an 'r' sound on the end that some English accents can't help adding, making it rhyme with beaver. I have a common enough name that some relatives still get wrong, it's annoying, but I'd let it go.'
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Another disagreed, saying, 'As someone who works with children and is faced with non-English names all the time, I think your family are being lazy and rude. It feels deliberate to me.
"It really is very simple to learn how to pronounce a name. And if they struggle with the spelling, they can write it down and stick it to the fridge as a reminder,' the same person added. 'Beautiful name, by the way.'
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