Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation C. Everett Koop More Quotes by C. Everett Koop More Quotes From C. Everett Koop The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century. C. Everett Koop advancementfoundationteaching Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the Lourie Center has rededicated itself institutionally to continuing his important work. C. Everett Koop importantmemorablechildren Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody. C. Everett Koop growing-upnaturekids When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up. C. Everett Koop showschildrenschool The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger. C. Everett Koop abortionmotherbaby If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. C. Everett Koop natureplaykids There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together. C. Everett Koop jobstwoorder The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics. C. Everett Koop target-audienceordinarymean There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home. C. Everett Koop educationalhomekids The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for. C. Everett Koop parentkidsyears I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play. C. Everett Koop natureplaykids My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job. C. Everett Koop philadelphiajobschildren Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class. C. Everett Koop takenteacherkids The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them. C. Everett Koop playcountrychildren I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model. C. Everett Koop doctorsjusticechildren That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does. C. Everett Koop nobodyknowdonepeople They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up. C. Everett Koop someupvisionkind You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are. C. Everett Koop expectamericanyoucollege One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play. C. Everett Koop parentssituationimportantchildren
