What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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
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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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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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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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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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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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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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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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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