Thursday, June 10, 2010

Mardy gowks

I was watching a young woman loading a small girl & a baby into a double buggy. The little girl was not very happy about it & was making her feelings plain.

Stop stressing so much, said the young woman.

There is the answer to why we are all suffering so much stress these days- we just have a word for it.

Once upon a time the child would have been mardy – “spoilt, sulky, whining, moody” according to the OED.

Babies who slept through the night, children who did not whine & sulk, these were all good children, a credit to their mothers.

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