Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
BENJAMIN SPOCKBiologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
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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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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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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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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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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’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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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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Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the experts say. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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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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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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