Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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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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Perhaps 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.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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