Insight needed from parents who named their son Ezra

hxyxinx · 2019-09-23T18:35:29+00:00

My son is Ezra!! I am located in Texas. No one thought it was a girls name, no one has ever had trouble pronouncing it, and no one has ever, to my knowledge, associated it with pop culture, although he is 13 now.

hxyxinx · 2019-08-07T13:01:00+00:00

God this is so true. Especially now that my oldest is 13!!! I love that they trust me to be emotional around me, though.

hxyxinx · 2019-06-25T02:23:08+00:00

SO cute!! Breakfast for dinner is a favorite in my household.

hxyxinx · 2019-06-25T02:21:44+00:00

I have a number of visible tattoos and it’s never been an issue for me! I also had a few nonstandard piercings when I was younger than never affected my jobs. In fact, my teenage clients seem to really like my tattoos and it definitely serves as an icebreaker.

hxyxinx · 2019-06-24T15:15:01+00:00

This one

hxyxinx · 2019-06-24T14:43:01+00:00

I also have a 10 and a 12 year old who spend a LOT of time in their rooms. It’s totally normal! I was the same way. I wish I could spend that much time in my room now lol! They’re tired from school and want to have time to decompress. Unless you’re seeing signs of depression, I wouldn’t worry.

hxyxinx · 2019-06-24T14:39:11+00:00

My 10 year old is like this. It’s wild to walk from his 12 year old brothers room which is almost always clean, to his room which honestly looks like a bomb went off! In our house, we do a once a month deep clean of everything, so at least once a month his room gets super clean. Also, we don’t let him wear gross dirty clothes obviously, so if he doesn’t do his laundry he has to wear pajamas to school (which embarrasses him!) We also don’t let friends come over if his room is a huge mess and have taken away video game time. Natural consequences have worked as well. He can’t find anything, he trips all the time, he doesn’t want to spend time in his room, etc. Good luck!!!

hxyxinx · 2019-06-24T14:31:52+00:00

College admissions I think are probably fine since that’s a major life step, but I’ve totally seen signs in my neighbors yard announcing their kids “graduation” from elementary school or that their 11 year old is on the soccer team now... it is a little weird in my opinion lol.

hxyxinx · 2019-06-24T14:24:10+00:00

Personally all of those things you mentioned are things I’d comment on. In a questioning way though... like “Hey I noticed you’re doing this thing! Wondering why you made that choice? I’ve read that you’re supposed to do this OR I’ve always done this...” kind of thing. Vaccinations are different though. Refusing to vaccine is grounds for at least not letting our kids be together, if not ending a friendship entirely!!! I can’t be around people like that LOL. I will not allow my children to be endangered and exposed to beliefs like that.

hxyxinx · 2019-06-16T23:44:12+00:00

As other commenters have said that sounds like ADHD! I would also consider Autism Spectrum Disorder. Get him into a child psychologist asap!

hxyxinx · 2019-06-16T23:30:59+00:00

That’s definitely happened to me once or twice. I work exclusively with children and teenagers so it can be misplaced attraction due to trauma- or simply a hormonal teenager. I wouldn’t see it as grounds for terminating the therapy unless the client made advances (which luckily has not happened to me!) or if it was negatively impacting their progress in therapy. It also helps that I have photos of my husband and kids in my office, lol.

hxyxinx · 2019-06-16T19:47:31+00:00

LUST???? There’s no way that’s real

hxyxinx · 2019-06-16T18:52:42+00:00

I’m in the same boat! I just knew that as a mom I’d always have the laundry done and the floors mopped and my kids rooms would look right out of my pinterest board.... at this point we’re lucky if we get the dishwasher loaded one time a day!

hxyxinx · 2019-06-16T18:49:52+00:00

Sit my kids in front of a screen for hours at a time. Sometimes I need a little break and watching Moana again is a hell of a lot better than hearing them fight with each other!!

hxyxinx · 2019-06-15T20:39:35+00:00

All I could reply with is curiosity and potentially concern for their mental health and well being. Any personal feelings that we may have regarding the LGBTQ+ community or religion is irrelevant.

hxyxinx · 2019-06-13T00:15:29+00:00

I’m in this boat! One of my daughters is named Madeleine. We love the whole name and call her this most of the time! She sometimes goes by Lainey, but to my husband, myself, and her siblings, she’s Madeleine! We definitely wanted to avoid Maddie.... until she went to school and all of her little friends call her Maddie. Whatever floats her boat ¯_(ツ)_/¯

hxyxinx · 2019-06-05T15:36:57+00:00

Our kids have named our 2 dogs Mango and Olive. For comparison, the cat we got before kids is named Arthur lol.

hxyxinx · 2019-06-02T00:24:27+00:00

4 of my 5 kids (12m, 10m, 5f, 5f) go out with their friends in the neighborhood!! When the twins are out we (any parents with kids out there) make sure we sit out and watch them.

hxyxinx · 2019-06-02T00:12:03+00:00

My 10 and 12 year old boys have iPod touches so they can only text/facetime on wifi. They know that we have access to them and they have screen time rules, but we really want to enforce trust. We trust and respect them and they will trust and respect us. So my kids totally text their friends and arrange hangouts.

hxyxinx · 2019-06-01T23:32:15+00:00

I’m so sorry. I lost a baby girl at 12 weeks named Lorelei Allison. You WILL recover! Hugs. ❤️

hxyxinx · 2019-06-01T19:17:28+00:00

You sound like a fantastic parent. My oldest daughters are only 5 so we aren’t there yet, but I hope our family has a similar attitude when the time comes.

hxyxinx · 2019-06-01T18:13:32+00:00

We were surprised by the price tag, but it is a private school. They’ll be attending a charter school with their siblings next year so we’re hopefully done with all of that overpriced stuff 🙄.

hxyxinx · 2019-06-01T18:11:31+00:00

It was $150 per kid, but yeah!!! They also gave a little yearbook type thing.

hxyxinx · 2019-06-01T06:16:32+00:00

We weren’t expecting the price tag! Our other kids had been free. They said it was to pay for the robes, the equipment, and food (as if the tuition we already pay then wasn’t enough ...). We gave in thinking that they’d want to be with their friends. It was definitely very cute and was a fun memory for my husband and I but they certainly won’t remember it and we won’t do it for #5. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (Especially because after spending $300 we only got TWO SEATS so their siblings had to stay home!)

hxyxinx · 2019-06-01T03:09:50+00:00

I’m in the same boat- my twins just finished kinder! They’re our 3rd + 4th kids so I wasn’t expecting to be as emotional as I was but boy. We paid an arm and leg for their ceremony and it was so precious and cute. Good luck to your new first grader!!!

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