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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.

Benjamin Spock

Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
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Believe Children People
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
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
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
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
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
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
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
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
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
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
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

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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