Oh my GOD, LW. IT IS NOT YOUR NAME. Back the hell off!
That poor, poor kid. Not assertive? Not surprising, with Control Freak Mom trying to make sure that absolutely everything about his identity, self-presentation, and experience of the world has HER STAMP all over it. I sincerely hope that everyone has just blanked out her bullshit and that other kids aren't teasing him over his mom throwing a fit about his name.
She said that Andrew never objects to being called Andy and sometimes even introduces himself as Andy (I don’t know whether or not this is true). To me, this is irrelevant. He is 7 years old, I am his mother, and I get to decide what people call him.
You got your one (1) chance to decide on a name for him when he was born, LW, and that decision was always going to be subject to his review. He's not your fucking toy. He's a person.
ETA: It is a seriously failure of foresight to name a kid Andrew and expect them NOT to become an Andy later on. I mean, some become Drew instead, or some other nickname, but this is an entirely predictable chain of events and LW should have known that NICKNAMES HAPPEN and not picked a name she hated the short version of.
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That poor, poor kid. Not assertive? Not surprising, with Control Freak Mom trying to make sure that absolutely everything about his identity, self-presentation, and experience of the world has HER STAMP all over it. I sincerely hope that everyone has just blanked out her bullshit and that other kids aren't teasing him over his mom throwing a fit about his name.
She said that Andrew never objects to being called Andy and sometimes even introduces himself as Andy (I don’t know whether or not this is true). To me, this is irrelevant. He is 7 years old, I am his mother, and I get to decide what people call him.
You got your one (1) chance to decide on a name for him when he was born, LW, and that decision was always going to be subject to his review. He's not your fucking toy. He's a person.
ETA: It is a seriously failure of foresight to name a kid Andrew and expect them NOT to become an Andy later on. I mean, some become Drew instead, or some other nickname, but this is an entirely predictable chain of events and LW should have known that NICKNAMES HAPPEN and not picked a name she hated the short version of.