How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
BENJAMIN SPOCKThe child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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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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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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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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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.
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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.”
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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