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Quote by Benjamin Spock
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steeri

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. – Benjamin Spock

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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable. – Benjamin Spock

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Women
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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. – Benjamin Spock

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best
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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. – Benjamin Spock

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Learning
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. – Allan Bloom

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. – Alvin Toffler

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parenting

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. Its about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. – Ron Taffel

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parenting

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity. – Roberto Benigni

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parenting

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I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up. – Debra Winger

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Family

The smile that flickers on baby’s lips when he sleeps — does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. – Laura Riding

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My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and Im a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff. – Ziggy Marley

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Dreams