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.
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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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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 child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the experts say. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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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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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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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