In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
BENJAMIN SPOCKHappiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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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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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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