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 SPOCKPhysical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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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.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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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’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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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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I really learned it all from mothers.
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