My daughter is pregnant and needs to speak about child names. I’m reluctant. My mother and father by no means suggested me on what to call my children or the right way to increase them. My spouse and mates all say I ought to plunge into the title recreation.

I’m sensitive about names. I’ve a man-made final title. My dad modified it from Soltzberg in 1941. He obtained Stratton out of a cellphone e book in a ready room earlier than a job interview. He obtained employed. Anti-Semitism was the explanation for the title change. After I completed faculty, I informed my dad I used to be considering of adjusting again to Soltzberg, and he went nuts: “You’re searching for hassle. Don’t do it!”