In deep personal crisis, a person will do or wear anything. It can also be applied to one who has fallen from grace and is forced to accept a more humble position. What is fun for little boys, is death for frogs Little boys throw rocks at frogs for fun but those same rocks can kill the frog. What is done jokingly to one person may be fatal for the recipient. You kill picknie gie mama, mama' na' gah eat em.
Mothers have more love for their children than children have for mothers.
A child can also often be tempted to harm their mother, but it is hard to tempt or induce a mother to harm her child. Yuh can' plant cassava an' expec fuh reap plantain You cannot expect to reap plantains if you plant cassava. You reap what you sow. This proverb has a wide range of uses and applications. It is sometimes fairly and sometimes unfairly used to comment on parents whose children have gone wrong.