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Benjamin Spock

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny 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
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
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 Women
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
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
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
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
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
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People

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