The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Biologically and temperamentally... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
There are only two things a child will share willingly -- communicable diseases and his mother's age. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued,… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
I think that parents ought to get some idea of how the so- called "experts" have changed their advice over the decades,… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country,… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important,… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share
Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share
Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share
This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share
When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share
It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the authorities -… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share
A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share
