Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
BENJAMIN SPOCKI was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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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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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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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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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no 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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