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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.

Benjamin Spock

I really learned it all from mothers.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Day Mom Mother
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
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
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
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
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’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
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer
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Cancer Children Grow Up
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
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
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
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
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
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother

Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.

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