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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.

Benjamin Spock

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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Baby Children Mother
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 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
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
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
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
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
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

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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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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