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“You cannot have sex education without saying that sex is natural and that most people find it pleasurable.”

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The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person…

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The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?

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Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

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Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females…

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Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children…

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To be a good enough parent one must be able to feel secure in one's parenthood, and one's relation to one's child...The security of…

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Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid…

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The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...

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No longer can we be satisfied with a life where the heart has its reasons which reason cannot know. Our hearts must know the…

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Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to…

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The good enough parent, in addition to being convinced that whatever his child does, he does it because at that moment he is convinced…

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The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a…

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“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by”

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“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

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According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind…

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