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

Benjamin Spock

I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Problem Realization Spiritual
I really learned it all from mothers.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Day Mom 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
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Helping World
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
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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Dance Goodbye Men
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
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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Children Home Husband
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
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
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
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
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?
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Children Peace War

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