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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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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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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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.
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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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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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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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