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?
BENJAMIN SPOCKI 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.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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 really learned it all from mothers.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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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Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
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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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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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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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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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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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