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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.”

Benjamin Spock

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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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Occupation Trying
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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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
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
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Helping
I really learned it all from mothers.

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I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count
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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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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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Wish
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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President United States
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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Parent
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Vietnam Winning
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Parent
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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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.

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