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

Benjamin Spock

The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom Mother
I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Problem Realization Spiritual
Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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Children Grow Up Respect
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
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
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
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
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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Believe Children People
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
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
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
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
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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People Realizing Said
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
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
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
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
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
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
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
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
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother

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