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 SPOCKCan 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 SPOCKThere are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
BENJAMIN SPOCKI’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
BENJAMIN SPOCKPeople 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 SPOCKIf I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
BENJAMIN SPOCKWhat good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
BENJAMIN SPOCKHaving a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
BENJAMIN SPOCKBoys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, ‘Now I’m going to read my paper’ than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.
BENJAMIN SPOCKI was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
BENJAMIN SPOCKI 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.
BENJAMIN SPOCKHow to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
BENJAMIN SPOCKPhysical 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 SPOCKWhen women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
BENJAMIN SPOCKPerhaps 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.
BENJAMIN SPOCKA human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
BENJAMIN SPOCKAll 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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