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.
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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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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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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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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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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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