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 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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Boys 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.
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I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
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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.
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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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.
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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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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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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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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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I really learned it all from mothers.
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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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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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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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 was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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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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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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