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.
BENJAMIN SPOCKThe strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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.
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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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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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