I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
BENJAMIN SPOCKAll 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.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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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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Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the experts say. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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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 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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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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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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Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don’t mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.
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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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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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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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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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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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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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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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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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