It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
BENJAMIN SPOCKI 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.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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 not the words but the music that counts.
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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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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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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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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’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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