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 SPOCKThere are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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 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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