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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.

Benjamin Spock

It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Helping World
I really learned it all from mothers.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Day Mom Mother
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 agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

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

Children Opportunity Parent
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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Baby Children Learning
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

Children Jobs Perfect
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
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Cancer Children Grow Up
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
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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Father Girl Possible Zoos
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?
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Peace War
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Being Bad Caught
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 SPOCK

Class Ideas Racism Routine
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Essence Mean Time
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Funny Mother
If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Quality Wish

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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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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