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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
Benjamin Spock
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Benjamin Spock
Age: 94 †
Born: 1903
Born: May 2
Died: 1998
Died: March 15
Military Officer
Pedagogue
Pediatrician
Physician
Politician
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Rower
University Teacher
New Haven
Connecticut
Benjamin McLane Spock
Dr. Spock
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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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Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.
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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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It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the authorities - that is to say, I can get out my hostilities - because I'm protected in my conscience by the knowledge that what I'm doing is morally right. I've never been so relaxed. I've never been so happy.
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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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If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.
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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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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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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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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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Parental 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.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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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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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
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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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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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It's not the words but the music that counts.
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