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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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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I 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.
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I love to dance and I’d love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing…I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.
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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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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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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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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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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