What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
BENJAMIN SPOCKI was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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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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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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