Baby Naming Coach
I was flipping through Los Angeles magazine when I came across a story about Jennifer Moss, the L.A.-based CEO of babynames.com, and her services as a baby-naming coach for $95 per hour. Normally, I would roll my eyes at yet another seemingly absurd maternity or baby luxury. But after meeting far too many moniker-challenged tykes named after New York boroughs and fresh produce, I’m starting to think that more parents should cough up the cash (which amounts to only $20 more than what it costs to fill up my gas tank each week). The irony though is that everybody considers themselves an expert about baby names and are all to eager to offer their advisory services for free.
Of course, if a second opinion is what you’re after, almost anybody from the homeless person asking for spare change to the UPS man seemed more than happy to offer up his or her two cents about name choices when I was pregnant. I’m always astounded that the most curmudgeonly asshole who wouldn’t stop to give you directions and would probably step over your convulsing body without breaking their stride if you were to suddenly drop dead in the street, will gladly spend their lunch hour shitting on your baby name choice and why they think it sucks.
LINK: babynames.com
Fun fact! minsun wrote this story just for you on July 2nd, 2008 |
