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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.

Benjamin Spock

If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Children Quality Wish
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
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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Believe Children Country
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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Children Jobs Perfect
Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
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Children Parent Punishment
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
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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Education Sex Spiritual Teacher
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
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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Occupation Trying Women
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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Children Confidence Wisdom
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
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 Peace War
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
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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Father Girl Possible Zoos
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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Class Ideas Racism Routine

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