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

Benjamin Spock

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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Baby Children Learning
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
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
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
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
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
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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Dignity Husband Love Marriage
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
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
I love to dance and I’d love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing…I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.
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Dance Goodbye Men

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