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Here are a few excerpts from a book I recently read, "Baby and Child Care," by Dr. Benjamin Spock.

Since there is no such thing as a 100 percent identification with one's own sex, it's better to let children grow up with the mixture of identifications, attitudes, and interests that have developed in them, as long as they can accept comfortably what they are, rather than make them ashamed and anxious because of parental disapproval.

 

I am making the point that independence comes from security as well as from freedom.

  

Don’t ask a child to eat to earn his dessert, or a piece of candy, or a gold star, or any other prize. Don’t ask him to eat for Aunt Minme, or to make his mother happy, or to grow big and strong, or to keep from getting sick, or to clean his plate. Let's state the rule more briefly: Don’t ask a child to eat."