How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
BENJAMIN SPOCKMost 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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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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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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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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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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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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I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
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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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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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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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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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