Persuasive Speech

Parents always look out for their children whether it is telling them to stand up to a bully, or making sure they get ready for a date, or even boosting the child’s self-esteem. They take care of us until we are old enough to start our own families. You would never hear of a parent purposely setting their children up to get bullied or crumbling their own children’s chances of finding a date, would you? Actually, there are some parents who practically tie their kids in a bow and serve them to bullies, hopefully unintentionally of course. That’s right, let’s talk about the parents who give their kids the most ridiculous names. My questions to those parents are why? What were you thinking? Do you not realize how ruthless elementary and middle school kids are? Do you think Ben Dover is a name you want to have in a middle school locker room? No child should ever have to deal with the consequences of a stupid name. Yes I know that making fun of someone’s choice of name is a wrong thing to do but come on, we were all thinking it.

The names we pick for our children should symbolize something, maybe a bible name because you are religious, or a name of a lost relative, or simply just the same name as the father or mother. These names stick with us throughout our whole life—which frankly if my name was Ben Dover, it would be changed in a heartbeat—it needs to be something we are proud to call ourselves and our children. These terrible excuses for a name have consequences. Not only do