Mr. and Mrs. Pocket’s children were not growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 22. Pip, on meeting Herbert’s family, comments on how wealthy middle class parents have little input into bringing up their children. Mrs. Pocket spends her time in a garden chair under a tree reading, while the children run around and play watched over by two nursemaids. The youngsters keep tripping over Mrs. Pocket’s footstool under her skirts and tumbling over her. Dickens is satirizing the bad parenting of well off couples like the Pockets.