Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
BENJAMIN SPOCKRespect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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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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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually 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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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