A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
BENJAMIN SPOCKBiologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
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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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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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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I love to dance and I’d love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing…I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.
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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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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