People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”
BENJAMIN SPOCKSex 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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Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don’t mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.
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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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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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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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Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Can 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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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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