Proverbs and old sayings about Children

As porridge benefits those who heat and eat it, so does a child benefit those that rear it.

Lesson: Don't lose your pen

1. Lost Your Pen = No Pen
2. No Pen = No Notes
3. No Notes = No Study
4. No Study = Fail
5. Fail = No Diploma
6. No Diploma = No Work
7. No Work = No Money
8. No Money = No Food
9. No Food = You Get Skinny
10. Skinny = Then You Get Ugly...

The man to whom god gives no children, the devil gives nieces and nephews.

Children's love is like water in a basket.

Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.

Don't give a child a name until after it is born.

Do not make the dress before the child is born.

Spare the rod and spoil the child

The burnt child dreads the fire.

Small children give you headache; big children heartache.

The child tells what goes on in the house.

The child that will not allow his parents to sleep through the night must be prepared to stay awake himself.

Children should be seen and not heard

It takes a whole village to raise a child

Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, 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 its living, and a child that is born on the...

The child is the father of the man

Ask the truth from a child.

A mother won't give milk to her child until he cries.

A porcupine speaking to its baby says, O my child of velvet.

A crime eats its own child.