Benjamin Spock on helping
Benjamin Spock42 quotes“It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.”
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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock 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.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock It’s not the words but the music that counts.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock 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.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock 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.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock 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.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock 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.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock 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.”
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock 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.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock 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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Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
Benjamin HaydonBenjamin Haydon I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
Ben SteinBen Stein Im not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street.
Ben NelsonBen Nelson Our first responders risk their lives to help others. The least we can do is make sure they have the resources they need to do their jobs.
Ben NelsonBen Nelson Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.
Bella ThorneBella Thorne I’d like to help other kids with dyslexia, because I’m dyslexic. It was very hard, and I know that what I went through, other kids are going through.
Bella ThorneBella Thorne What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.
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