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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.

Benjamin Spock

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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Children Future Mean Parent Teacher
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
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.
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Common Common Sense Experts
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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Dance Goodbye Men
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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Children Fear Horse
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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Children Parent Punishment
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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Baby Children Learning
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.
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Long People Strong
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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Cancer Children Grow Up
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
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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Father Girl Possible Zoos
If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Children Quality Wish
Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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Children Grow Up Respect

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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