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Benjamin Spock
American
Scientist
Born:
May 2
,
1903
Died:
Mar 15
,
1998
Care
Child
Children
Parenting
Parents
War
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People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.
Benjamin Spock
Health
Good
Day
Me
People
Political
Care
Important
Become
Say
Out
Criticized
Seeming
Good Schools
More
Step
Disarmament
Schools
Health Insurance
Insurance
Than
Role
Realization
Aspects
Measles
Professional
Belated
Even
Nuclear
Vaccine
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
Benjamin Spock
Parenting
Parents
Power
Steering
Supplies
Child
Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.
Benjamin Spock
Imagination
Children
Preschool
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin Spock
Happiness
Feel
Mostly
Makes
Doing
Us
Fulfilled
By-Product
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
Best
Good
Parenting
People
Babies
Fathers
More
More People
Studied
Feel
Instinctively
Come
Like
Conclusion
Mothers
Doing
Methods
Up
Children
Different
After
Bringing
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.
Benjamin Spock
Man
Woman
Dignity
Marriage
Joy
Maturity
Style
Harmony
Say
Pleasure
Would
Inspiration
He
Surest
Spouse
His
Provides
Creates
Measure
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
Benjamin Spock
War
Babies
Because
Proud
Opposed
Were
Vietnam
Who
Youths
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
Benjamin Spock
Today
God
Family
Country
Few
Believe
Our
Destiny
Principal
Very
Children
Serve
Raised
We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.
Benjamin Spock
Parents
Our
Way
Somewhat
Like
Deal
Least
End
Up
Children
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?
Benjamin Spock
War
Myself
Happy
Cause
Parents
Healthy
Physicians
Like
Up
Trying
Children
Them
Use
Help
Bring
Numbers
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
Benjamin Spock
Confidence
World
Drive
Feeling
Important
Destiny
Something
Gives
He
Over
Perhaps
Him
Child
Gets
Who
Thinks
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.
Benjamin Spock
War
Intervention
Steal
Supported
Also
Korea
Very
Pacifist
Against
Much
Vietnam
A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.
Benjamin Spock
Art
Made
Threshold
Adulthood
Advances
Individuals
Masterpieces
Scientific
Been
Surprising
Just
Created
Number
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