BROTHERS & SISTERS !!
THIS SORT OF BEHAVIOUR DESCRIBED BELOW IS SOMETHING WE MUST IMMEDIATELY SPEAK OUT AGAINST IN OUR HOMES
If it raises it's ugly head.
querulous: adjective complaining in a rather petulant or whining manner. "she became querulous and demanding" synonyms: petulant, complaining, pettish, touchy, testy, tetchy, waspish, prickly, crusty, peppery, fractious, fretful, irritable, cross, crabbed, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, miserable, morose, on edge, edgy, impatient, bitter, moody, in a bad mood, grumpy, huffy, scratchy, out of sorts, out of temper, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, sullen, surly, sulky, sour, churlish, bilious, liverish, dyspeptic, splenetic, choleric; informalsnappish, snappy, chippy, grouchy, cranky, whingeing, whingy; informalnarky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head; informalsorehead, soreheaded, peckish; informalsnaky; informalmiffy "there'll be no rest for me with a querulous adolescent"