Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
BENJAMIN SPOCKIt’s not the words but the music that counts.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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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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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I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
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In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
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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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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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 really learned it all from mothers.
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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