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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
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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Education Sex Spiritual Teacher
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
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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People Realizing Said
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 be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
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
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
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
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
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
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive

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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