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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

Benjamin Spock

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
Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, ‘Now I’m going to read my paper’ than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.
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Father Girl Possible Zoos
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
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
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
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
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
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 Jobs Perfect
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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Baby Children Mother
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom 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
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
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
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
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
I’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
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Country Intervention War
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Children Opportunity Parent
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
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

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