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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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually 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 so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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 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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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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Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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