A proverb about what family members learn from each other: “Parents teach their children to talk; children teach their parents silence.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “An Aphorism”
Here’s a Hebrew proverb you can probably relate to, or the translation anyway.
Parents teach their children to talk.
Children teach their parents silence.
I don’t know what that means.
Does that mean that you shouldn’t say things you don’t want to hear out of the mouths of your children?
I bet it means that maybe you don’t know as much as you think you knew.
Oh, there we go.
That’s a good one.
But I’m sure there could be all different kinds of interpretations, but I really like it.
Parents teach their children to talk.
Children teach their parents silence.
Okay.
I’ll accept that latter reading.
That’s a good one, right?
We all need a little humility.
The parent who seems to know everything quickly doesn’t.
Well, maybe you have a different interpretation.
We’d love to hear about that or any thoughts you have about language.
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