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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

Benjamin Spock

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
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
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
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
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
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
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
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
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
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
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
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
The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.
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Long People Strong

The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

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