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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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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 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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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
BENJAMIN SPOCKDon’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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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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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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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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