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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.

Benjamin Spock

Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Children Opportunity Parent
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
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
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
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
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
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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Children Confidence Wisdom
I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Problem Realization Spiritual
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
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 was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
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
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War

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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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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