It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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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 was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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