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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.

Benjamin Spock

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
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
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Children Opportunity Parent
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
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Problem Realization Spiritual
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
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
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
Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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Children Grow Up Respect
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
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
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
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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Father Girl Possible Zoos
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
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
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
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
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 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 People Strong
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
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Believe Children Country
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.

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