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.”
BENJAMIN SPOCKParental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don’t mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.
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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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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 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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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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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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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Don’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.
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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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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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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.
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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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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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Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the experts say. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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