I really learned it all from mothers.
BENJAMIN SPOCKHaving a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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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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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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I’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.
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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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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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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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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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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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