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.
BENJAMIN SPOCKThere are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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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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I really learned it all from mothers.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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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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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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