Quotes by "Benjamin Spock"
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.
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?
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.
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
