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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

Benjamin Spock

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
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
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
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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Education Sex Spiritual Teacher
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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Children Jobs Perfect
A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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Satisfaction Selfish Successful
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
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
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Children Opportunity Parent
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
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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Children Confidence Wisdom
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
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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Children Peace War
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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Believe Children People
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

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