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.
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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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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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.
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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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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no 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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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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Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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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I really learned it all from mothers.
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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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