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.
BENJAMIN SPOCKWhat good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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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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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
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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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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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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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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