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.
BENJAMIN SPOCKIt’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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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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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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 child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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