“ 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 ho… Benjamin Spock
“ There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age. Benjamin Spock
“ 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
“ What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. Benjamin Spock
“ In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. Benjamin Spock
“ 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 th… 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. 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? Benjamin Spock
“ There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. 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. Benjamin Spock
“ People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nucle… Benjamin Spock
