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A boy's best friend is his
mother
( Psycho )
A
child
is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks ( Shell advertising slogan )
Absent parent
Action Man ( children's male doll )
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Adult
entertainment ( euphemism for sexual or violent entertainment )
All children, except one, grow up ( the opening line of Peter Pan )
Alpha Mom ( an ambitious
mother
who aims to excel at work while raising
children
)
Are you sitting comfortably? ( A catchphrase from Listen With
Mother
)
Atom Heart
Mother
( Pink Floyd album )
Baby brain ( forgetfulness caused by lack of sleep when caring for a newborn )
Baby
father
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Brum brum ( child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle )
Can you hear me, mother? ( A catchphrase from Sandy Powell )
Child
of God
Child's play
Children
and fools tell the truth
Children
should be seen and not heard
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Children's shoes have far to go ( Start-Rite Shoes advertising slogan )
Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
Chip off the old block
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Do you kiss your
mother
with that mouth
Drink, feck, arse ( A catchphrase from
Father
Ted )
Earth
mother
Every mother's son
Face that only a
mother
could love
Family man
Family matters
Father
Knows Best ( American TV Show )
Father
Of The Bride ( Steve Martin movie )
Father
Ted ( BBC comedy television series )
Father
of The Atomic Bomb ( Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer )
Founding
father
Full fathom five thy
father
lies ( from The Tempest by Shakespeare )
Genetic
fingerprint
Genetic
makeup
Give up
Glow Little Glow-worm ( children's nursery rhyme )
Go tell your
mother
she wants you
Go with
child
Goodnight
children
everywhere ( A catchphrase from Uncle Mac )
Grapes, like children, need love and affection ( Almaden advertising slogan )
Harper Valley PTA ( Jeannie C. Riley song )
Head of the household
Heavy with
child
Helicopter parent
His father's son
Home alone
Honour thy
father
and
mother
House
mother
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
How's your
father
I swear on my mother's life
I'll be
mother
In loco parentis
It isn't nice to fool
mother
nature
Just a glint in his father's eye
Kid tested
Mother
approved ( Kix advertising slogan )
Lady Madonna,
children
at your feet ( Beatles song lyric )
Learnt at your mother's knee
Leave no
child
behind ( Political slogan )
Let's rock ( A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With
Children
)
Like father, like son
Like
mother
used to make
Love
child
Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get ( line from the movie Forrest Gump )
Midnight's
Children
Mother
Courage ( play by Bertolt Brecht )
Mother
Earth
Mother
Russia
Mother
Superior jumped the gun ( Beatles song lyric )
Mother
church
Mother
country
Mother
f*cker
Mother
hen
Mother
knows best
Mother
love
Mother
nature
Mother
of God
Mother
ship
Mother
tongue
Mother's boy
Mother's help
Necessity is the
mother
of invention
Old
Mother
Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone ( line from nursery rhyme )
Old enough to be your
mother
Our
children
are not our
children
Our
father
who art in heaven
Parental rights
Parents
who use drugs have kids who use drugs ( The Partnership for a Drug-Free America advertising slogan )
Pester power
Problem
child
Sandwich generation
Santa's Little Helpers ( allusion to the elves that help
Father
Christmas )
Saturday's
child
works hard for a living
Saviour sibling ( a
child
born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease )
Spare the rod and spoil the
child
Suffer the little
children
Sunday's
child
is full of grace
The Famous Five ( characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book )
The Man
Child
( Nickname of Dwight Howard )
The Man with the
Child
in His Eyes ( Kate Bush song )
The Parent Trap ( Hayley Mills movie )
The Sash My
Father
Wore ( Irish traditional song )
The apple never falls far from the tree
The boy is
father
to the man
The
child
is
father
of the man ( from a poem by Wordsworth )
The fruit does not fall far from the tree
The grand-daddy of them all
The
mother
of all battles
The only 'sauce' I dare give
Father
( Burma Sauce advertising slogan )
The sash my
father
wore
The wheels on the bus go round and round ( title of children's song )
The wish is
father
to the thought
This is Not Your Father's Oldsmobile ( Oldsmobile advertising slogan )
Thursday's
child
has far to go
Tied to his mother's apron strings
Trap and ball ( children's ball game )
Twas the night before Christmas - the
children
were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming ( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Voodoo
Child
( Jimi Hendrix song )
War baby ( someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate
child
of a soldier )
Wednesday's
child
has far to go
When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother
Mary comes to me ( Beatles song lyric )
Who's little boy are you?
Who's she, the cat's mother?
Wicked stepmother
With
child
Women and
children
first
Your
Mother
Should Know ( The Beatles song )