Sebastian is good-natured and energetic, but the children in town tease him because he doesn't have a real mother.
When the children tease you about the legitimacy of your birth, smile to yourself and remember what I have said.
"But why do you let the children tease her?"
The children, grown now, still tease him about his absence.
Teachers don't know what to make of it, and other children may tease them.
When he was a boy, other children had teased him mercilessly.
Three small children were teasing a mangy dog on the hotel steps.
The children were teasing the new student by imitating his foreign accent.
The children were teasing the cat, pulling its tail, and trying to make it hiss at them.
As one child teased his mother, "You take three footsteps, and you're out."