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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

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
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Baby Children Learning
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
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
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
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
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
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
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
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
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
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
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
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
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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Children Jobs Perfect
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
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
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
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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Baby Children Mother
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom Mother
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
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
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning

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