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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.

Benjamin Spock

Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Captain Choice Creativity
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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Fear Horse
I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Problem Realization Spiritual
Don’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Jobs Perfect
I really learned it all from mothers.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Day Mom Mother
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?
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Peace War
I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Dignity Husband Love Marriage
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.”
BENJAMIN SPOCK

People Realizing Said
Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Home Husband
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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Dance Goodbye Men
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Count Music
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Opportunity Parent
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Baby Vietnam War
Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Cancer Children Grow Up
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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Baby Children Mother
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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Country Intervention War

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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