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.
BENJAMIN SPOCKI’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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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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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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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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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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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.
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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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