Proverbs and old sayings about Children, page 3

548 proverbs and old sayings about children

As you do for your ancestors, your children will do for you.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

A child who knows how to wash his hands will eat with the chiefs.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

A child who is fearless is going to bring tears to his mother's eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

When a child is asleep a mother's attention is on the child's stomach.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

Train a child the way he should go and make sure you also go the same way.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

A child can play with its mother's breasts, but not its father's testicles.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

A child doesn't breast-feed from a stepmother if its mother is still alive.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

A child doesn't belong to the father or mother; a child belongs to the ancestors.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

When a four-year child is still crawling instead of walking it is time to cry out.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

When a blind man is happy he gives money to his child to buy kerosene for his lamp.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

A child's hand is not burned by hot yam which is placed into his palm by his mother.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

If a mother steals with a child stripped in the back what do you expect of the child.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

The key that unlocks is also the key that locks. Honor a child, and he will honor you.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which his mother puts into his palm.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

No matter how big a child is, he cannot deny that he was once carried on the back of a woman.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

A parent should not give up modelling their children because the ancestors too never give up on us.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

It takes a breast for a child to know it's mother and it takes a mother for a child to know its father.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

The antics of a market buffoon provide laughter, but nobody prays that his child becomes the market buffoon.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children