Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
BENJAMIN SPOCKGrandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
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