Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
BENJAMIN SPOCKTo win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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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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All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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