Benjamin Spock Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
More Benjamin Spock quote about:
- Age,
- Babies,
- Child Care,
- Children,
- Fathers,
- Growing Up,
- Mothers,
- Parents,
- War,
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“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.”
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“The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.”
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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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“It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.”
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“The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidences in themselves - happy. They will have a spirit that will make the best of all the capacities that they have, and of all the opportunities that come their way. They will make light of any handicaps.”
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“When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.”
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“Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves.”
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“Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.”
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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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“Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.”
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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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“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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“I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.”
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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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“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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“In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.”
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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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“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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“I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.”
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“When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.”
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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 not the words but the music that counts.”
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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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“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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