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

Benjamin Spock

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
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
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
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
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
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
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
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
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
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
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
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
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Believe Children Country
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
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 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
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
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 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
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
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
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 agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
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Occupation Trying Women
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
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive

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