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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.

Benjamin Spock

Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Opportunity Parent
Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Home Husband
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Education Sex Spiritual Teacher
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Future Mean Parent Teacher
I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom Mother
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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Class Ideas Racism Routine
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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Confidence Wisdom
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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Children Fear Horse
If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Quality Wish
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Dignity Husband Love Marriage
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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Cancer Children Grow Up
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Dad Parenting
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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Long People Strong

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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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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