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
BENJAMIN SPOCKEvery 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.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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I love to dance and I’d love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing…I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.
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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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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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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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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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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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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 up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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What 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?
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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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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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