Original artwork, not a still
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker jokes that parents spend a child's first year teaching walking and talking, then the following year demanding the child sit down and be quiet. The humour lies in the irony: the skills so eagerly encouraged quickly become a source of exasperation, and adults end up asking for the opposite.
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