Hypothetical Situation From Another Board..... (I Don't Know If This Is Even True)

[youretooloud]

Someone on another board on facebook claims she got a call for childcare, and the son's name was Lucifer.

The provider turned them down because she advertises as a Christian Daycare.

Now, I personally think the caller was just yanking her chain, but she claims it was really the boy's name (they never met, never interviewed)

Would you turn down this family if they had named their son Lucifer?

*true story though... one of my daycare parents has a student named Sinner.

[littlemissmuffet]

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I'm an athiest... so the kid would be welcome here!

Let's not forget that Lucifer means "morning star" or "bringer of light".

[MyAngels]

Lucifer wouldn't bother me, but Damien, no way - those Omen movies scared me half to death ::.

[daycarediva]

I try not to judge others, I am an atheist and would accept a child into care without discrimination as long as I thought it was a good fit for my program.

We know a couple with a son named Aliester, and they are a wonderful family.

[JenNJ]

I don't care what a child is named unless it is a vulgar word. Lucifer wouldn't bother me at all.

[countrymom]

wouldn't bother me, but seriously what were they thinking when they named their child. That would be awful in school.

[Crazy8]

my first thought was isn't that a Marvel comics villian name?? So yeah, I would take the kid.

[Blackcat31]

Lucifer wouldn't bother me, but Damien, no way - those Omen movies scared me half to death ::.

Lol! Ive had several Damiens. My DD's best friend all through high school is named Reagan (The Exorcist) !

We know a couple with a son named Aliester, and they are a wonderful family.

What's that name from? I dont connect it with anything.
It is also one of my DCK's middle names....

[littlemissmuffet]

Lol! Ive had several Damiens. My DD's best friend all through high school is named Reagan (The Exorcist) !



What's that name from? I dont connect it with anything.
It is also one of my DCK's middle names....

The Great Beast... Aleister Crowley. lovethis

[Cradle2crayons]

Lucifer wouldn't bother me, but Damien, no way - those Omen movies scared me half to death ::.

Lol my sons name is Damian and my mother refuses to call him that. We call him " little man" and have since before he was born. He knows his name though but it's little man for us.

[EchoMom]

It sounds like a prank. But honestly, I would not take a child named Lucifer. Even if I were ok with it, other parents might not be and they might not like their child talking about their friend Lucifer at home. I wouldn't want my DS running around talking about Lucifer. More importantly, anyone who would name their child Lucifer is probably not a family I would mesh with. If they were foreign and it didn't have the same conotation then maybe the family would be totally fine but I still wouldn't like that name getting around to all the families homes.

My families are all professional white collar families. Nothing wrong with blue collar, just stating a fact. I had one family that were blue collar and acted like a bunch of yahoos. Of course I'm not saying that all blue collar people act that way, just saying this one particular family did. The dad would pick up his son in his jeep and be hanging out of the jeep yelling "Woo woo!" down the street (The DAD not the son!). The son would go home with no seatbelt on (5 years old) hanging out the back of the Jeep. Sometimes he would pick the child up on his motorcycle and throw his giant adult sized helmet on him. Other parents saw this and were appalled. The boy would come to daycare with fresh wounds and burnes from his motor cross races. It really really was not an image I was comfortable with representing my daycare. I ended up terming for other very objective reasons, but these were also factors in my decision as well.

True story, when my mom was still a classroom teacher she had a child named "MyAngel" not "Angel" but "MYangel!" So my mom always had to say "Yes, MyAngel?" She also had a student named "Messaiah" and we weren't very comfortable with that either.

[Willow]

Honestly? I would make assumptions about the type of people inclined to name their child such a thing and probably not agree to even an interview.

Same would apply if someone told me their child was named anything listed here http://m.parentdish.co.uk/2012/03/20...us-baby-names/

Anus? Smelly Head? hgdsstuopkjgdsgjgdq3579?-% or whatever the heck it was......sorry, but I think it would be more than safe to assume I would not mesh with people that believed anything like that was acceptable to weigh their child's life down with.


You want to be that level of stupid? Fine, change your own name to whatever you want regardless of how much it will offend everyone around you.....but don't do that to a child when childhood can be plenty tough to navigate as it is.

[Unregistered]

Names of children that have played sports with my children or parents that are teachers have told me:

Little Man-Legal name/parents want him to choose his name when he's older

Jet Black

Felon-Yep, guess parents were representing the family well

Heaven

[preschoolteacher]

It's a strange name choice, that's for sure. Depending on the vibe I got from the person over the phone, I would probably agree to interview. I'd definitely be on the lookout for red flags during the interview though, more so than on a normal interview, that's for sure...

Whether you're an atheist or not, when someone names their child what another religion calls their devil/evil power, it definitely raises some eyebrows!

Although to be completely objective, Lucifer is kind of a nice-sounding name, goes along with the Lucy, Luca, Lucas trend, and it's literal meaning is very nice! The negative connotations ruin all of that, though.

[Leigh]

I'd much prefer Lucifer to seeing one more kid named Neveah (PUKE), Jayden, Jaeden, Jaden, or any other form of that, Jaylen, Braxton, Madysyn, Jaxson...I could go on and on with this all day. Lucifer would be so preferable.