I really learned it all from mothers.
BENJAMIN SPOCKA human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
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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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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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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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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