Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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.
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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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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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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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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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