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

Benjamin Spock

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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.

BENJAMIN SPOCK

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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK
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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Routine
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count
A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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Successful
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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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.
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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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Mean Parent
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Vietnam
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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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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Grow Up
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many
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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Realizing Said
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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Zoos
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Dad Parenting
I really learned it all from mothers.

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I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Parent

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

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