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

Benjamin Spock

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
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom Mother
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
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
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
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

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

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