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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

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
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
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
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
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
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
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
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
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
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 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
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
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense

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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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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