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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

Benjamin Spock

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
I love to dance and I’d love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing…I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.
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Dance Goodbye Men
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
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
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
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
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Class Ideas Racism Routine
Don’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.
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Children Jobs Perfect
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
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
Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the experts say. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Common Sense Experts
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
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music

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