love the jennifer stranglehold for over a decade - guess it's the quintessential american girls name
― Mordy , Sunday, 20 October 2013 15:32 (ten years ago) link
it's also interesting to me how Sophia is the most popular name in 2011 + 2012. that's what we named our babby this year. she was named after a great aunt (sophie) which we turned into Sophia bc it's a hebrew word from ashet chayil ("she watches") and bc we loved the name. and then incidentally a ton of other ppl also named their daughters sophia for presumably mostly unrelated reasons (but likely related in some deeper cultural/aesthetic sense).
― Mordy , Sunday, 20 October 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
There's got to be some kind of delay phenom with baby names where ppl get a shortlist of favorites before they're actually having kids, and then use those favorites 10 years later or something. In 1997-ish I had a Classics prof who had a little girl named Sophia, which he said they chose for its classical associations and bc it reads the same in a large number of languages. I thought about it for years and always liked it but never ended up having kids...but if I had, it might have been in the last few years...which is when it peaked.
Lol @ Ava tho.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Sunday, 20 October 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
http://www.womenyoushouldknow.net/flatten-heroine-artist-puts-disney-princess-filter-10-real-life-female-role-models/
― Mordy , Sunday, 3 November 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
so I'm not sure if this is exactly in the spirit of this thread but I've been seeing a growing number of cool toys either aimed specifically at girls or young children in general that teach engineering and programming skills in a fun way. Here are some good ones:
http://www.goldieblox.com/http://www.roominatetoy.com/http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danshapiro/robot-turtles-the-board-game-for-little-programmer
― Moodles, Sunday, 3 November 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
re goldieblox: http://m.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/Modern-Parenthood/2013/1121/Anti-princess-branding-beyond-the-bandwagon
― Mordy , Sunday, 24 November 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link