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It’s not the words but the music that counts.

Benjamin Spock

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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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  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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  There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.

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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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  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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  The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

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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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  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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  I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

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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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  I really learned it all from mothers.

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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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  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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  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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  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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