Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
BENJAMIN SPOCKThe 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.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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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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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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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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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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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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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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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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