Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
BENJAMIN SPOCKChildren 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
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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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 was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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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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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’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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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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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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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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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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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