I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
BENJAMIN SPOCKDon’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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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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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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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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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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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