5 Benjamin Spock Quotes on Children

Benjamin Spock quotes on children

9. There are only two things a child will share willingly- communicable diseases and his mother's age.

10. In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

13. 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.

16. I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of the rigidities of pediatric tradition, particularly in infant feeding. It emphasized the importance of great differences between individual babies, of the need for flexibility and of the lack of necessity to worry constantly about spoiling.

18. If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.