It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
BENJAMIN SPOCKThe 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.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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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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I really learned it all from mothers.
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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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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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