Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the experts say. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
BENJAMIN SPOCKCan we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
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Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.
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In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
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Don’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, ‘Now I’m going to read my paper’ than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.
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Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
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I love to dance and I’d love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing…I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.
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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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