I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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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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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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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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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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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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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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