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Parenting Quotes by Benjamin Spock
- The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are…
- Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
- The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
- There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
- What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
- The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers…
- The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidences in themselves…
- 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…
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- The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. — Richard Bach
- The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
- To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. — Dave Barry
- The family is the school of duties - founded on love. — Felix Adler
- Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be… — Allan Bloom
- My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. — Erma Bombeck