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

Benjamin Spock

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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Children Home Husband
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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Children Fear Horse
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
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 Future Mean Parent Teacher
A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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Satisfaction Selfish Successful
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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Common Common Sense Experts
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
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
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
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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Long People Strong
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

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