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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Benjamin Spock

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
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
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Believe Children People
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
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
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
A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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Satisfaction Selfish Successful
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
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
Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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Children Grow Up Respect
I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom 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
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
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
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
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
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
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
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
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
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

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