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.
BENJAMIN SPOCKThe 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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In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
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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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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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 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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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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