Who is generally closer to the kids, mom or dad?

(it's a funny riddle)

People put me on the table and cut me but do not eat me. What am I?

I look flat, but I am deep. Hidden realms I shelter. Lives I take, but the food I offer. At times I am beautiful. I can be calm, angry, and turbulent. I have no heart but offer pleasure as well as death. No man can own me, yet I encompass what all men must have. What am I?

A boy collects white seashells from the sea and brings them home every night. When he has enough of them, he decides to sell them to a trader.

The trader is ready to buy the shells and he asks the boy about the quantity. At this, the boy starts calculating. He has a giant box that contains 3 mini boxes. Two of them have another mini box inside. If the giant box can hold 50 shells, how many brown shells can he sell to the trader?

Place the numbers from 1 to 9 in the circles in a manner that each side of the triangle sums up to 17.

What does below Rebus mean ?

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A kind heart person buy packed food at 3$/packet from United states and sells them at 1$/packet at Africa. After some time he becomes a millionaire.

How come the guy become millionaire ?

You are on a Boat in the mid of a river. You have two cigarettes with you. One of these two you have to light, how will you light the cigarette?

You have a roll of cloth 1km long. You have a machine which cuts this roll into pieces of 10-meter-long cloth.

How long would it take for the machine to cut the roll if each cut took 4 secs?

What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?