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.
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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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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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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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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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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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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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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