Name Perceptions - What's In A Name?

The importance romance comics a name cannot be underestimated. When we meet new people, the first thing we do is introduce ourselves by name. When you hear about Sandman comic else, you often hear about them by name. You may think of people with a particular name as having certain similar characteristics. All these factors, and all the people we know by a particular name often influence our opinion of that name.

Numerous psychological studies have been performed that tried to measure peoples perceptions about names, and link those perceptions to the actual characteristics exhibited by those people. Indeed, many of these studies did find that people have pre-conceived ideas of what characteristics a particular name has. This implies that people may have feelings about you simply by hearing your name. How someone treats you may be a factor of other people they know with a similar name, or other people they have heard about with your name. It's not uncommon to hear parents reject names for their upcoming child simply because they know another person with that name that they dislike.

Before choosing a name for your child, it's a good idea to find out what people think of that name. Unfortunately, it's often a mystery what people think of a particular name, or how they might judge someone with that name. There are a number of books available that try to correlate names to characteristics, or you can turn to the internet to try and find out what people think of a particular name. Even if you do not think that a person's name can have any affect on how they are treated, it can be both interesting and entertaining to see what other people think of your name.

http://www.about-name.com - Find out what people think of your name, and potential names for your child.

Teens and Bulletin Boards

Both of my girls have always loved bulletin boards in their rooms. Bulletin boards allow you to change the room without Star Trek movie to repaint and without having to redo the room as your child goes the various phases of teen life.

There are so many themes a teenager can use on a bulletin board. Both of my kids collected quotes at one point. With multiple bulletin boards, teens can have a bulletin board with love quotes, a bulletin board with motivational quotes and even a bulletin board of quotes made by famous people.

Both of my kids also collected CD covers. How fun to put all of the CD covers on a bulletin board. When friends come over, the friends can see the CD covers and say hey lets listen to this, referring to one of the CD covers.

One of my daughters used to go to the movies quite often. She saved all of her ticket stubs. Your teen can arrange movie ticket stubs on a bulletin board. She also had concert ticket stubs mixed in with her movie ticket stubs.

Many teens go through a phase of enjoying poetry. Poetry can be copied from a book, or written by your teen, or even written by a friend. Poetry can be on small sheets of paper, note cards, or even full sheets of paper.

Photos of teen idols are also very popular. I know there were times both of my kids would cut photos out of magazines of their favorite musicians.

Both of my kids also loved to exchange wallet sized photos with their friends. Both of my girls have created bulletin boards with photos of friends. As happens in the life of a teenager, sometimes two teens will have a falling out. Satisfaction could actually be found in removing a photo from the bulletin board. This is an action that hurts no one but allows the teen to toy guns their own anger.

Bulletin boards are not just for girls. Many of my friends have teen boys and Ive seen bulletin boards in their rooms also. Boys tend to put magazine photos on bulletins more than any other item. These photos are often of motorcycles, cars or the latest video game information.

When my younger daughter went to an out of state summer camp, she prepared a bulletin board here at home and packed it in her suitcase to take with her.

When my oldest daughter left for college, she brought lots of items to put on the large bulletin board that was already in place in her new dorm room. Even colleges know that teens love bulletin boards.

Next time your teen asks about redoing their room, suggest bulletin boards!

Audrey Okaneko has been scrapbooking for several years. She can be reached at audreyoka@cox.net or visited at http://www.scrapping-made-simple.com