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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.

Benjamin Spock

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
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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People Realizing Said
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 up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
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
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Children Opportunity Parent
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
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
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
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
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
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

If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.

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