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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our 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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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’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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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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Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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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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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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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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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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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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Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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I really learned it all from mothers.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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