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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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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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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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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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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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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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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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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