3 December 2020 Benjamin Spock 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.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Spock When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Spock Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Spock 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?
3 December 2020 Benjamin Spock 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.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Spock There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Spock 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.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Spock What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
