Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, ‘Now I’m going to read my paper’ than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.
BENJAMIN SPOCKThe loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.
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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
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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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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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Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don’t mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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 was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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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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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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