When they first met at the school gate, she leaned in and asked, "do you have children" to see if their schedules might match.

As the old proverb goes, the shoemaker's children go barefoot, and though he spends his days mending shoes for everyone in the village, he neglects to provide for his own family's footwear.

At the committee hearing, an exasperated parent shouted, "won't someone think of the children" and the lawmakers ignored the plea.

As she inspected her children's torn shoes, she muttered the cobbler's children are the worst shod and resolved to spend more time caring for them.

The Song of the Three Holy Children, an apocryphal canticle often appended to the Book of Daniel, is still chanted in some churches.