Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
BENJAMIN SPOCKWhat is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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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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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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 strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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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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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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 really learned it all from mothers.
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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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