- Ankle biter
- As easy as taking candy from a baby
- As happy as a sandboy
- Baby blues
- Baby boomer
- Baby father
- Boys will be boys
- Children should be seen and not heard
- Chip off the old block
- First dibs
- Generation X
- Goody two-shoes
- How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child
- New kid on the block
- Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
- Pester power
- Ring a ring o'roses, a pocketfull of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down
- Son of a gun
- Spare the rod and spoil the child
- Stranger danger
- Wet behind the ears
- Whipper snapper
- Whipping boy
- Women and children first
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