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? ”

I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at home or in school; no grades. Let athletics be primarily for fun, and let them be organized by children and youths themselves. ”

We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children. ”

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God. ”

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. ”

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. ”

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence. ”

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 the best after all. ”

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. ”

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination. ”