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
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
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
Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally… — 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
Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is… — 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
I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of… — 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
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
