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.
BENJAMIN SPOCKTo win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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I really learned it all from mothers.
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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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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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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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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