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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Benjamin Spock

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
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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Baby Children Mother
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
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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Dignity Husband Love Marriage
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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Children Home Husband
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
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
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
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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Country Intervention War
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
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
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”
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People Realizing Said

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