Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
BENJAMIN SPOCKAll 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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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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
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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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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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I’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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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 was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
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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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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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