Dr. Benjamin Spock Quotes

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.

I really learned it all from mothers.

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.

In automobile terms, 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 its mother's age.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

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?

You know more than you think you do.