If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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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I really learned it all from mothers.
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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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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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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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 was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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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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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
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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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