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.
BENJAMIN SPOCKI was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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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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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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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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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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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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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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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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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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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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.”
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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