It’s not the words but the music that counts.
BENJAMIN SPOCKI was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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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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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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Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, ‘Now I’m going to read my paper’ than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.
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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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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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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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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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