There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
BENJAMIN SPOCKWhen women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
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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’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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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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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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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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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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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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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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