It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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