Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
BENJAMIN SPOCKChildren 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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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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I’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
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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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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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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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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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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