The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
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