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
BENJAMIN SPOCKDon’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don’t mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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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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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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