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.
BENJAMIN SPOCKMost middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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 really learned it all from mothers.
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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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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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