Benjamin Spock
Scientist
1903-05-02 – 1998-03-15
Benjamin Spock was an American pediatrician and author whose child-care books shaped postwar parenting in the United States.
Books by Benjamin Spock
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Dr. Spock's baby and child care
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Common sense book of baby and child care
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BABY CHILD CARE
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Quotes by Benjamin Spock
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In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
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In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
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I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.
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People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
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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.
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