In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
BENJAMIN SPOCKIt’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer
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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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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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I love to dance and I’d love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing…I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.
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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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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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