Not a 'Godfather'
By dorypanda
@dorypanda (1601)
June 5, 2008 3:40am CST
My nephew is going to have a 'naming ceremony', it's kind of a non-religous Christening, so, I suppose it could be called an 'Ening', anyway, my partner is going to be our nephews 'godfather', but they don't want him to be a 'godfather', they want a different name for him, 'guardian' sounds too boring, we can't think of anything else.
Can any of you make any polite suggestions please? Thank you.
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@dorypanda (1601)
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16 Jun 08
Funnily enough, this is the one the parents have gone for! :)
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@nannacroc (4049)
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8 Jun 08
Douglas Adams had ungodparents for his daughter or non-denominational guardians. Neither sound too good though.
@pumpkinjam (8876)
• United Kingdom
6 Jun 08
Supporting Adults and Mentors is all I can find. I will keep looking and thinking and get back to you if I come up with anything. I'm sure there must be a nice word.
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@mummymo (23706)
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5 Jun 08
Our church do naming ceremonies too as they believe in believer baptism so do not baptise babies! I am called 'heir ' by my nephew as when my sister was adopting him she had to write a will and put serious consideration into what would happen to him if anything awful befell her and/or my brother in law and he is my 'inheritance' lol I was a bit worried about how he would feel about me calling him my inheritance at first but he loves it and tells everyone that I am his substitute Mum! lol xxx
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