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Yet another case<\/a> of estranged parents (at least one, probably two) more interested in scoring points against each other than in actually doing what’s best for the kid.<\/p>\n

“I was filling out paperwork for refinancing my home; my last name is six letters long and (even) it wouldn’t fit in the boxes on the form,” Newman said. “Why does anyone think it’s in a toddler’s best interests to saddle her with such a long name that would never fit in any box?”<\/p>\n

Yeah, that’s it. We’ll decide the issue based on crappy form design and name length.<\/p>\n

Of course, I think any parent who would actually saddle someone with the first name of “Kyleigh” should have custody revoked anyway, but that’s just me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet another case of estranged parents (at least one, probably two) more interested in scoring points against each other than in actually doing what’s best for the kid. “I was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5903,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/01\/kid_stuff_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":757,"position":0},"title":"Kid stuff","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-Jul-04 9:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"The secret to good Kid TV is coming up with something that parents can enjoy. 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