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...your child's given name is versatile, you might avoid a permanent name change. Kastner, for instance, preferred her middle name, Scribner, when she was in school. One of my sisters has alternated between Kimberly and Kim. Then there's the always appropriate "You can do whatever you want once you turn 18, honey...
Many kids try on different names, but, according to Seattle psychologist Laura Kastner, it's usually a pass- ing fancy. It's tougher, she says, to quash an alternate identity when it's been around a while. In other words, we should have nipped this in the bud. (It could have been worse: when Kastner's goddaughter Jane was eight, she changed her name to Roxie--and she's still Roxie...
...hadn't written her "real" name on any Christmas gift tags. Since then, we've made a half-hearted attempt to respect her wishes, but we're still hoping she'll go back to the y when she's a little older. Don't hold your breath, says Kastner. "She knows you're resisting. She's saying, 'Embrace my identity. Not the one you gave me; the one I gave...
...most inspiring thing I've ever seen," said senior coxswain Jason Kastner...
...season also meant the end of the Harvard crew careers of seniors Scott Beal, Dias, Nate Jones, Todd Morgan, Chad Wolfe, Nuzum and Kastner...