Benjamin Spock Quotes


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 Vietnam 80
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. Benjamin Spock Facebook 75
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 Child 75
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. Benjamin Spock best 73
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. Benjamin Spock Mom 71
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. Benjamin Spock Happy 69
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 Believe 67
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. Benjamin Spock Parenting 66
You know more than you think you do. Benjamin Spock Think 57
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 Parenting 56
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. Benjamin Spock Parenting 53
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 Marriage 50
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable. Benjamin Spock Women 45
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation. Benjamin Spock Uncategorized 36
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. Benjamin Spock Becomes 32
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. Benjamin Spock Uncategorized 24
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. Benjamin Spock Anger 23
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. Benjamin Spock Uncategorized 21

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