black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

Benjamin Spock

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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Confidence Wisdom
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 SPOCK

Baby Children Mother
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Common Sense
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Opportunity Parent
I really learned it all from mothers.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Day Mom Mother
Don’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Jobs Perfect
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

May Quiet Teamwork
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Class Ideas Racism Routine
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Dad Parenting
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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Fear Horse
If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Quality Wish
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Nation Vietnam Winning
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Essence Mean Time
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Helping World
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 SPOCK

Believe Children People
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Count Music
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Happiness Inspirational Positive
Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don’t mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Future Mean Parent Teacher
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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Father Girl Possible Zoos
I 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 SPOCK

Occupation Trying Women
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Believe Children Country
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
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Cancer Children Grow Up
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 SPOCK

Education Sex Spiritual Teacher
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 SPOCK

People Realizing Said
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Baby Mom Mother
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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Dance Goodbye Men
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Captain Choice Creativity

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benjamin Spock Quotes