Words matter. These are the best Benjamin Spock Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
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.
A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.
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 child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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.
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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.
On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.
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.
