Top 13 Benjamin Spock Quotes



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

 

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

 

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

 

There are only two things a child will share willingly – communicable diseases and his mother’s age.

 

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

 

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?

 

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

 

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.

 

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

 

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

 

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