What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, ‘Now I’m going to read my paper’ than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.
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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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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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I really learned it all from mothers.
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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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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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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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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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