What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
BENJAMIN SPOCKRespect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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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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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 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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The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.
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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Physical 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.
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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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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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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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