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
baby diapers size
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
baby war proud
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
mom mother baby
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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.
mother baby children
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.
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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,
believe care child concerned foremost home husband women
Biologically and temperamentally, I believe women were made to be concerned first and foremost with child care, husband care and home care
apt babies early later prolonged rebel
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.
women trying occupation
I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
grandchildren grandparent
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
prayer people parent
Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts - there is just too much misery and cruelty for that.
children quality wish
If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.
time mean essence
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
attitude father boys
A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work...