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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

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
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
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
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
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
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
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
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
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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Occupation Trying Women
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
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
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
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

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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