I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
BENJAMIN SPOCKThe child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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.
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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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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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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Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the experts say. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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.
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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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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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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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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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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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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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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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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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