The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
BENJAMIN SPOCKHaving a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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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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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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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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I’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
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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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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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