It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
BENJAMIN SPOCKPerhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, ‘Now I’m going to read my paper’ than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
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People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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 instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.
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Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
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