NAMING DAY CEREMONY READINGS
Tim Manger - Naming Day Celebrant

Why perform a reading? Readings are an excellent way to involve family and friends in your Naming Day ceremony. You may choose to select a work, excerpt, poem, prose, verse, or any of the kind of text for your guest speakers on the day, or you may choose to let the guest speaker select their own reading. Whatever your decision, you need to select text that both defines your roles as parents, and exemplifies your child. Below is a popular selection of Naming Day readings.

Popular Ceremony Readings

Title Author A Mothers Wish Anon   A Poem For Parents Author Unknown   Are You My Mother P D Eastman   Brand New Little Daughter Linda Lee Elrod   Children Learn What They Live Dorothy Law Nolte   Footprints Anon   For My Baby Sharon Brennan   Koalaloo Mem Fox   Ode on The Whole Duty of Parents Frances Cornford   On Children Kahlil Gibran   The Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed Helen Cooper   Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak