In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

Benjamin Spock

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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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Wish
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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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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Successful
Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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Grow Up
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.
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Long
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 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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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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Zoos
I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Realization
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Diapers
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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Intervention
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.

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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Helping
Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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