Top 10 life lessons kids learn from grandparents
While fathers provide the dad jokes and mums the motherly advice, grandparents are a well of wisdom.
Interflora surveyed 1,500 grandchildren to find out the enduring life lessons their grandparents taught them. The results reveal a strong intergenerational bond, with nearly two thirds of respondents saying their grandparents are influential in their lives and more than half of grandchildren confiding in their grandparents on a regular basis.
Here are the 10 most common pearls of wisdom grandparents have passed on to the next generation.
1. A leopard never changes its spots.
2. A minute on the lips, a lifetime on the hips.
3. A watched kettle never boils.
4. Treat others as you would like to be treated.
5. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
6. An hour before midnight is worth two after.
7. Be nice to people on the way up as you will meet them on the way down.
8. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
9. Don’t leave until tomorrow what you can do today.
10. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger.
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