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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.

Benjamin Spock

It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom Mother
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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Children Confidence Wisdom
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
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
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
Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the experts say. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Common Sense Experts
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
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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Class Ideas Racism Routine
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
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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Baby Children Learning
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Children Opportunity Parent
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
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
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
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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Believe Children Country
A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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Satisfaction Selfish Successful
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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Children Peace War
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
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Children Quality Wish
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”
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