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“The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.”

Benjamin Spock · Parenting

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Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

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

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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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