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.
BENJAMIN SPOCKAll 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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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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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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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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