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.
BENJAMIN SPOCKI would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the experts say. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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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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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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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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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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 proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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