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When a child is asleep a mother's attention is on the child's stomach.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about attention, children, mother
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, mother
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, mother
Give a pig when it grunts, and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig, and a bad child.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children, bad luck, bad
One kisses the child for the mother's sake, and the mother for the child's sake.
Proverbs and old sayings German about kiss, children, mother
When the child falls the mother weeps; when the mother falls the child laughs.
Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about children, mother
Don't give a child a name until after it is born.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about name, children
Do not make the dress before the child is born.
Proverbs and old sayings about children
Spare the rod and spoil the child
Proverbs and old sayings British about children, old, olderness
The burnt child dreads the fire.
Proverbs and old sayings British about children, fire, fire brigade
The child tells what goes on in the house.
Proverbs and old sayings Albanian about children, home, house
The child that will not allow his parents to sleep through the night must be prepared to stay awake himself.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about parents, sleep, night, children
