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Good Afternoon! Here is my first perplexing thought. I just read an article where more and more parents are using over-the-counter medications to “punish” their children. For instance, this man poisened his 3-year-old-son and 18-month-old daughter by feeding them canned soup laced with hot peppers and lighter fluid and later with prescription antidepressants in 2006. He was sentenced to 100 years in prison last year, according to news reports. Other forms of abuse in this article were laxatives, anti-depresants, pain relievers and sleep aids. Really? Who thinks up this stuff? The laxative one really throws me for a loop! I can’t even fathom the thought and yet people are out there doing these kinds of things to their children. I just don’t get it. I have 3 children of my own, 4 ½ year-old twin girls and a 2 year old. I know I’m not the most perfect mommy, I get upset when they don’t listen, yell when I probably shouldn’t, things like that. But come on, laxatives and lighter fluid? Sick!

On a lighter note, baby names. This is the fastest rising names list from Babyname Wizard. For the girls: Tenley (never heard of that one), Sookie(poor thing), Ursula(watched the show Friends too much), Mhairi and Maelle(not sure how to pronounce), Ever(Why?) and Lux(Isn’t that from Superman? Oh wait, that was Lex. Still too close for a girls name).

FASTEST-RISING GIRL'S NAMES
1. Tenley
2. Harper
3. Everleigh
4. Martina
5. Sookie
6. Navi
7. Charlotte
8. Eloise
9. Lorelai
10. Ursula
11. Briella
12. Kinley
13. Tinsley
14. Mhairi
15. Leighton
16. Maelle
17. Ever
18. Kinsley
19. Lux
20. Everly

For the boys: Castiel(doesn’t even sound like a name), Eoin(from an elf in Lord of the Rings maybe), Aarav(???), Zion(I know what it means, but all I can think of is Matrix), St. John(Really? A St. already? You don’t have other children), Dashiell(I just don’t get this one).

FASTEST-RISING BOY'S NAMES
1. Castiel
2. Bentley
3. Eoin
4. Easton
5. Lucian
6. Aarav
7. Zion
8. St. John
9. Kaiden
10. Sterling
11. Callan
12. Leland
13. Harper
14. Mikah
15. Dashiell
16. Eliah
17. Dawson
18. Kayden
19. Lennon
20. Dorian

I get that parents want their little ones to have names that stand out (I did), but what are some of these parent’s thinking? Not only are some of these names going to make their kids stand out, they will be an outcast. Don’t be cruel to your children, different is ok as long as it isn’t so different that people give your kids “the look” when they introduce themselves.

Stay tuned for more….