There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.
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I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at home or in school; no grades. Let athletics be primarily for fun, and let them be organized by children and youths themselves.
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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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.
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I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
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