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Benjamin Spock

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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Dignity Husband Love Marriage
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
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
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.
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Baby Children Mother
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
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
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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Country Intervention War
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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Children Fear Horse
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?
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Peace War
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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Baby Children Learning
Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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Children Grow Up Respect
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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Occupation Trying Women
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

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