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
horse fear children
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.
dance goodbye men
I love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing...I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.
baby war proud
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
country should-have people
This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal to develop, to industrialize our country so rapidly and so successfully - now it's clearly passed its usefulness. It is keeping us from achieving the ideal society that we should have. We say industry must produce to improve the quality of life for all our people.
spiritual realization problem
I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
confidence wisdom children
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
mothers-day mom mother
I really learned it all from mothers.
teacher sex children
Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves.
heart vegetarian-diet years
When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began.
mom mother baby
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
spiritual teacher sex
Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.
baby book differences
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.
jobs children perfect
Don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.
children opportunity parent
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.