Benjamin Spock Quotes

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  Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

  Benjamin Spock

  Positive, Family, Trust

  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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• The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

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  Growing Up, Discipline, Return

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.679, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

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  Common Sense, Common

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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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  Time, Mean, Essence

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (1985). “Raising Children in a Difficult Time”, Pocket

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• Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.

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  Creativity, Choices, Captain Kirk

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• Humans can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet they're potentially more vicious than any other. They are the only ones who can be persuaded to hate millions of their own kind whom they have never seen and to kill as many as they can lay their hands on in the name of their tribe or their God.

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  Hate, Hands, Names

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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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  Selfish, Successful, Satisfaction

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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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  Children, Punishment, Parent

  Benjamin Spock (1992). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care”

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• The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

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  Children, Dad, Parenting

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.580, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, World, Helping

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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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  Funny, Mother, Children

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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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  Respect, Children, Growing Up

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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 confidence in themselves and happy. They will have a spirit that will make the best of all the capacities that they do have and of all the opportunities that come their way.

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  Growing Up, Children, Parenting

  "Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care". 8th Edition,

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• Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts - there is just too much misery and cruelty for that.

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  Prayer, People, Parent

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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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  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Country, Children, Believe

  Benjamin Spock (1992). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care”

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• If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, Wish, Quality

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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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  Children, Believe, People

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• I think that parents ought to get some idea of how the so- called "experts" have changed their advice over the decades, so that they won't take them deadly seriously, and so that if the parent has the strong feeling, "I don't like this advice," the parent won't feel compelled to follow it. . . . So 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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  Strong, Jobs, Children

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• The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

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  Teamwork, May, Quiet

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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.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mother, Baby, Children

  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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• The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

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  Jobs, Children, Parenting

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Children, Growing Up, Cancer

  Benjamin Spock, Steven Parker (1998). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care”, E P Dutton

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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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  Common Sense, Experts, Common

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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