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.
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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Don’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.
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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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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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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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Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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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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The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
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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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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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