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By Beth Hardie An enraged mum is urging children to be confident in their name after a nightmare nursery experience with her little girl. After discovering her daughter’s nursery has shortened her little girl’s name because it is ‘too hard to pronounce’, a furious mum decided to speak out in the hope of inspiring others. Mahinarangi Tautu had just started to attend the day centre in New Zealand in 2021 when her Maori mum Paris was told that staff would call the then five-year-old “Rangi”. They told the horrified parent they found Mahinarangi’s traditional Maori name, which means ‘moon in the s…

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