Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
BENJAMIN SPOCKBiologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Don’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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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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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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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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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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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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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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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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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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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