There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
BENJAMIN SPOCKHow to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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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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