People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”
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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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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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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Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the experts say. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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