Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
BENJAMIN SPOCKIt’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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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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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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