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 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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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 really learned it all from mothers.
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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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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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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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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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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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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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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