I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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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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I really learned it all from mothers.
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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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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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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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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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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People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”
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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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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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