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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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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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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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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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