What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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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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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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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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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
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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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