There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
BENJAMIN SPOCKThe strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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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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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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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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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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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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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
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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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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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
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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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