Is it true what *they* say about Wednesday children?

[Canada_Mom]

Are they really full of woe?? Silly question, I know. But a friend of mine and I have been discussing this at length. She's got 7 and her Wednesday children definitely have more melancholic tendencies than her others.

What's it like in your family??

[hsmamainva]

I have 4 children - 1 is a Wednesday.

I wouldn't say he's melancholy, but he's serious. We always joke that he was born middle aged! He's very sensible and generally more polite than most 8 year old boys!

Very interesting!

[Closeacademy]

She is my most dramatic child and biggest worrier. She could worry herself sick if I let her. She is sensitive and needs extra love, special handling and plenty of reassurance.

But she is an absolute joy--so thoughtful, giving and loving.:)

[Soph the vet]

According to the Mother Goose rhyme we memorized, Wednesday's child is "ever so sweet".
I have a Wednesday and she is sweet and strong-willed:)!
Here's the poem:
Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is ever so sweet
Thursday's child is tidy and neat
Friday's child to prone to a giggle
Saturday's child is easy to tickle
But the child that is born on restful Sunday
is happy and cheerful and loves to play.

[Lorna in the boonies]

I've never heard that version (Soph the vet's) -- funny how things change from place to place, isn't it?

I know:

Monday's child is full of grace,
Tuesday's child is fair of face,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
But a child born on the Sabbath day
is bonnie and blithe and good and gay.

(When I was little, I always thought it unfair that I was born on Saturday!)

I can't answer the original question, though, because my kids were born on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday (I can say, though, that my Sunday child has always been my moodiest one, and that doesn't fit the rhyme at all!).

[DIY-DY]

According to the Mother Goose rhyme we memorized, Wednesday's child is "ever so sweet".
I have a Wednesday and she is sweet and strong-willed:)!
Here's the poem:
Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is ever so sweet
Thursday's child is tidy and neat
Friday's child to prone to a giggle
Saturday's child is easy to tickle
But the child that is born on restful Sunday
is happy and cheerful and loves to play.

I'm a Wednesday's child. My two sisters' children (both my age) are Sunday's children. And boy, oh, boy did my sisters LOVE to quote that poem, as if they hoped to make it true. Blech. So while I'm not quite "ever so sweet", I'm taking it anyway b/c it makes me smile! :)

[CleoQc]

I have two kids, both Wednesday children!
I guess they follow the different rhymes though

My first born is full of woe,
my last born is ever so sweet!

[~Tara~]

Oh I remember tossing this around with hub before. The "Thursday's child is tidy and neat" does NOT describe my Thursday child LOL He's the one who can't feel peanut butter that is smeared from ear to ear, literally! And he comes downstairs, clothes all askew. hehe

I don't have a Wednesday child to compare.

My Monday, Saturday and Sunday children all fit the first poem mentioned though. Never heard of the second.

I love looking at these sorts of things. I just think it's fun.

[Jean in Newcastle]

You remember the day they were born on?! I do remember the date, but I'd have to look at a very old calendar to figure out what day of the week it was!

[Karin]

None of mine were born on a Wednesday. I think ds was Tuesday, and he's the one most prone to worry about things, he's so conscienscious and is a big thinker. I was born on a Sunday, and I don't think I'm bonny, blythe, good and gay (old meaning of gay was how it was written). Friendly, yes, but intense is a better word for me than some of these others! My girls were both born on Saturday, but I give no credence to these. To me they're just fun rhymes and help with learning the days of the week.

[Karin]

None of mine were born on a Wednesday. I think ds was Tuesday, and he's the one most prone to worry about things, he's so conscienscious and is a big thinker. I was born on a Sunday, and I don't think I'm bonny, blithe, good and gay (old meaning of gay was how it was written). Friendly, yes, but intense is a better word for me than some of these others! My girls were both born on Saturday, but I give no credence to these. To me they're just fun rhymes and help with learning the days of the week.

[Karin]

Oops--I pressed a wrong key when I went to edit (I have a niece named Blythe, so I mispelled blithe) and somehow double posted!

[sdWTMer]

Oh my, that explains why my dh is the way he is :eek: and I was born on a Tuesday and that's why I can't get a tan! :p Curse those people who wrote that poem! ;)

[susie in tx]

My Wednesday child was also born on the Ides of March. :) She is full of energy, excitement and wears her heart on her sleeve. She feels everything first and thinks later, though she can be a very deep thinker. I'm pretty sure that anyone who met her would not consider her to be melancholy at all. In fact, she's the child that my mother threatened me with when we would argue in the years I was a hormonal teenager.