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What expectant parent wouldn't grab onto a proven, fun plan for choosing a baby's name they'll love? A simple ten-step program shows how to determine what's most important to you, as you sift through names according to your family history, what's currently popular, sounds, meanings, ethnicity, originality, and familiarity (not to mention dealing with the suggestions of well-intentioned relatives and friends). You'll draw upon the diverse naming customs in other times and places, and become aware of psychological differences between naming a boy and naming a girl, as well as ways to find solutions when parents disagree. Best of all: more than 20,000 names to trigger your imagination, including sources, meanings, alternative spellings, and shorter and longer versions.
The Perfect Name: A Step-by-Step Guide to Naming Your Baby SYNOPSIS Overwhelmed by countless baby name possibilities? Finding it hard to compromise with your partner? Frustrated with those well-intentioned opinions from your coworkers, hairdresser, and mother-in-law?
Stress no more! Jeanine Cox -- publisher of BabyZone.com -- has developed a fun and simple ten-step program to help you find the perfect name for your perfect baby. You'll begin this unique plan by brainstorming names that are the right fit for your child -- from family names to fun names to monikers with special meaning to you and your partner. The Perfect Name then reveals how to methodically narrow down your choices (without fighting or tears!) to that one ideal name you've been searching for. To help, BabyZone.com provides more than 20,000 names from all over the world.
Inside The Perfect Name you'll find meanings, origins of names, trivia, tips, and more:
Unique versus popular namesNaming a boy versus naming a girlHow to compromise with your partnerBaby-naming traditions around the worldBiblical names, New Age names, and celebrity namesakes
Complete with a useful workbook that walks you through each step of the baby-naming process, The Perfect Name is an enjoyable way to welcome your baby to the world — without anxiety or regrets!
Jeanine Cox is the co-founder and publisher of BabyZone.com, the leading online destination for personalized parenting content and tools. She is also the proud mother of Oliver Max and Nadia Grace.
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