I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
BENJAMIN SPOCKI was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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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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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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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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