Ancient toddlers

[primsong]

At a shop earlier, toddler in cart in front of me having a meltdown.  Exasperated mother finally says "Atticus, will you please quit crying?!"

Atticus?

My son recently encountered a wee child named Brutus. This is an interesting trend, I like it better than soap opera characters I must say, at least the history the namesakes echo isn't fictitious. 

Comments

[shannonsequitur]

It seems like I semi-recently encountered a weirdly-named toddler at the library, but of course now I can't remember what it was. I just remember thinking that of course he was acting out, you gave him a ridiculous name.

[primsong]

That did occur to me as well - when she added "Goodness you're mad today!" I was thinking "Of course he's mad, he's Atticus!" hee...

[shirebound]

That reminds me of the teeny, tiny, miniscule dog I met once whose name was Spartacus. I would definitely think it's more fun for a dog to have an attention-getting name than a child.

[primsong]

I do have to wonder what sort of nicknames he may encounter as he grows up, but it would look great on a business card someday. Hee hee...Spartacus the Small!

[thisbluespirit]

As long as they don't let Brutus play with knives! ;-)

[clocketpatch]

Strange, but much better than some of the names I've come across.