Biologically and temperamentally... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.

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?

BENJAMIN SPOCK

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

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Dad Parenting

Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.

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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.

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Grow Up

I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.

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Being Bad Caught

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

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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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Mom

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

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Vietnam

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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Realizing Said

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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Routine

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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Zoos

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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Mean Parent

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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Experts

Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.

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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.

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Diapers

It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…

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President United States

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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Parent

Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.

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