Ok, I'd love your wise thoughts on this....DH (and thus me and DS) has a bizarre surname. He's always told me about how he was bullied at school and i've kind of gone "yes, dear oh you poor thing etc etc" but now ds is at school I asked DH was he specifically bullied about his name, and he says yes.
I then suggested we use mine or double-barrel our names and DH said it wasn't worth it as people will always find something to bully about!!! Wtf? My view is, lets not give them anything to start with at least!
The thing with ds is that he isn't an obvious target for bullying - he's pretty assertive, no physical differences for people to pick on, he doesn't appear to be top or bottom of the class; so it's just his name I worry about.
Obviously if we double-barrel our surnames the bizarre one is still there but I feel is a bit diluted.
I wish now i'd stuck to my feminist principles and refused to take the name in the first place! What do you think, what would you do?
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my DH was bullied because of his bizarre surname - should we do something about this for DS?
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sunnysideup · 30/11/2006 11:06
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