The Meaning Of Names Is A Hope And An Aspiration As Parents Lead And Guide Their Children To Strive To Live Up To Their Name’s Promise And Potential

The Meaning of Names, Baby Names in particular, is a fascinating glimpse into your baby’s future possibilities.

Baby Parenting is simply the beginning portion of a lifetime of Parenting joys and challenges, made easier by learning then using Parenting Skill and understanding to your greatest benefit and highest use.

Parenting Skills are always made more useful when you have an overall game plan, or a set of Parenting goals in mind that you wish to lovingly accomplish with your growing baby and family.

Nothing can help to motivate and direct both you and your baby towards lofty thoughts, principles and ideals like the choosing of that perfect Baby Name.

When choosing a Baby Name, the Meaning of Names should be an important consideration in your final choice of names.

This is because the Meaning of Names can act as a built-in goal and motivator to your baby who will carry that name, live that name, and hopefully with your help and motivation and consistent teaching, live up to the Meaning of the Name which you will give to him or her upon entering this life.

As you most likely know by now, this website is not about doing what has already been done before, nor is it about providing you with the same lists of Baby Names, Meaning of Names, Origin of names and all of the other overused databases full of boy and girl names that so many other sites already offer.

Most anyone can and does offer lists giving you the Meaning of Names, genders, origins and alternative origins of Baby Names and so forth.

Supplying you databases of searchable baby names is the easy part.

We here at the Preteen Thru Teenage Parenting Action Guide are always interested in bringing you the WHY and the How Does That Affect Me As A Parent? reasons behind the lists of statistics and databases of information that everyone else is eager to feed you.

We give you the food for thought and the ‘Parenting Front Line’ and “Why that’s important to me” perspective that makes that information useful and relevant to you and your Parenting challenges and aspirations.

And so it is with this discussion about the Meaning of Names, or the vision and promise of what dreams and aspirations and modes of living the meaning of your baby’s name can give to your child as a compass and general pathfinder for their journey through life, that this section is presented.

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To illustrate how the Meaning of Names can be used in a practical Parental sense, let me provide you with an example of the same.

Suppose you just gave birth, or are the new father of a beautiful baby boy. After going through list after list of baby names, and after taking and re-taking the Baby Names Self Test to discover and re-discover how the many different boy names make you feel, and whether they suit you and will likely suit your baby or not, you finally decide on the following Baby Name for your little boy:

Name: Alexander
Gender: Male
Origin: Greece
Meaning of Name: Protector of Mankind

It goes without saying that your baby won’t be able to verbally communicate until around the age of one, but he will be making himself known and understood through smiles, cries and many other non-verbal ways of telling you as the Parent how he as the baby feels.

So you can and should be talking to your baby about their name, why you named them what you named them, the meaning of the name and how you are sure they will do great things in life, just like their name implies.

Never mind they won’t yet know what you are saying, you are still sharing with them the meaning of their name and planting the seeds for how it will affect them and motivate them and color their image of who they are and what they can achieve in life since you will naturally and periodically tell them these same things once they ARE old enough to understand what you are telling them.

Please note that if you want your baby to start talking as soon as possible then DON’T talk baby talk to your baby. That is not to say that you shouldn’t talk sweetly and softly to your baby, but use actual words so they can learn to speak actual words back to you as early as they can once they are able to speak.

If all your baby hears from you is baby talk that actually means nothing at all in any language, then those are the sounds your baby will try to imitate back to you in an attempt to communicate, because that will be the only thing they have heard and know to pattern their speech after.

So real words spoken to your baby will produce real words spoken back as soon as your baby is able to speak.

The more naturally you speak to your baby, the larger their vocabulary and the faster their communication skills will blossom once they are ready to speak.

So tell your baby from before you think they can understand you the meaning of names, the meaning of their specific name, and do this at least every month or two in the beginning to remind them of the meaning of their name and how they can be just like the meaning of the name you gave them and what it implies that they can be.

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Speaking with your child about the meaning of their name from an early age will make the lessons and inspiration and aspirations that their name implies become well understood and second nature to your child as he or she grows up in life.

Of course as your child gets older you will need to tone it down a bit so it doesn’t get too old or overused, but instead begin to look for ways to naturally reinforce the meaning of the name to your child as they act in ways that represents that meaning, even and especially if they don’t know they are doing that.

Now back to our example:

Your son Alexander is now a toddler and another toddler is crying because she wants a toy that your son is playing with.

Since your son is so nice and kind (taking after his Parents of course) he naturally shares the toy with the little girl who stops crying.

That is your signal to hug your son and explain to him again, in a very natural way and in the context of what just happened, something like “I am so proud of you Alexander. Remember that your name means ‘protector of mankind’ and you being kind to that little girl just protected her feelings, so you really are a protector of people, just like your name implies. Isn’t that great? I think so too!”

Now if you as the Parent can look for natural events that tie into another such explanation every so often as your child grows to reinforce the meaning of his name, then you are really getting somewhere because by so doing the meaning of his name is literally becoming an integral part of your child’s makeup, and he WILL begin to act more and more like what the meaning of his name implies.

Your child’s Self-Esteem will soar as they see themselves in the positive light of the meaning of their name, and if you as the Parent make these teaching moments natural and in-context with what is going on in your child’s life, much of the learning will be viewed as just a part of living; it will just be the ways things are in your family and home.

The meaning of names in this way actually helps to lift and mold Our Children’s Behavior since we have taken the time to teach and train our children, from the very earliest of ages, about the meaning of their name until it actually becomes a part of who they are and how they view themselves.

If you want your children to understand morals, ethics, religious faith, Family Rules and Rewards, or any other positive and uplifting norms and values, then teach them to your children from the very earliest of ages, and then live them for your children to see, from the very earliest of ages, even from their infancy.

Herein lies

The True Challenge of Parenthood

Being The Quality People Yourself Whom You Wish Your Children To Be As They Grow Up, And Whom You Wish Them To Be Once They Are Grown Up.

That’s it in a nutshell.

If you learn this one lesson then you can spend the rest of your Parenting time and effort being the very best person you can be for yourself AND for your children who will almost surely follow in your footsteps and do as they have seen you do.

That is why Parenting is so hard to do properly, because it actually requires YOU to be better than you otherwise would be.

If you don’t want to raise Children who Lie, then you must not lie yourself.

If you don’t want to raise Teenagers with Substance Abuse Problems, then you must not have a substance abuse problem yourself.

Now back to the importance of the meaning of names:

The name you give your baby is vitally important, and now you are beginning to understand how to convert the meaning of names into actual meaning and motivation and vision for your own baby, child, Preteen and eventually Teenager as your baby grows and progress through all of these stages in life.

But all your talk will only be talk if you don’t back it up with the proper Parental example.

Your children won’t hear your words if they see that your actions contradict them.

I know this can be hard to read and even harder to live but to do hard things makes us better people, and who better to be better for than for your own loving baby and for your own growing family?

The Meaning of Names is worth communicating to your baby in actions, words and deeds, here a little and there a little, through all of the various stages of their life.

You can do it, and your child will one day thank you for it.

The Meaning Of Names Is A Way To Motivate Our Children To Great Feats And Inspired Living, And Just As Parents Want To Motivate Their Children To Do Well In School, The Meaning Of Your Child’s Name Can Serve As A Permanent Motivation For Your Child’s Life When They Remember The Meaning Of Their Name And Then Try To Live Up To The Vision And Promise And Infinite Potential That Meaning Has Grown To Have For Them Through All The Stages Of Their Life.

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