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.
BENJAMIN SPOCKHappiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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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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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer
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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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