I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
BENJAMIN SPOCKGrandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
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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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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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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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