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.
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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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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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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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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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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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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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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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