It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
BENJAMIN SPOCKHappiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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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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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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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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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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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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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
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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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