Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin McLane Spockwas an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the best-sellers of all time. Its message to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth2 May 1903
CountryUnited States of America
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In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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This is a small degree of training, but it's not learning because the baby is not really conscious of the bowel movement or of what she herself is doing,
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She's not cooperating knowingly. And some babies who have been 'caught' early in this way are more apt to rebel later through prolonged soiling or bed-wetting.
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Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
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It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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I think that parents ought to get some idea of how the so- called "experts" have changed their advice over the decades, so that they won't take them deadly seriously, and so that if the parent has the strong feeling, "I don't like this advice," the parent won't feel compelled to follow it. . . . So don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.
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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.
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Humans can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet they're potentially more vicious than any other. They are the only ones who can be persuaded to hate millions of their own kind whom they have never seen and to kill as many as they can lay their hands on in the name of their tribe or their God.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Biologically and temperamentally... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.