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
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.
party thinking people
...the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are beholden to industry. They always will be. And, the American people are fooled when they think that if you can just get McGovern instead of Humphrey, or if you can get a Democrat instead of a Republican, this will be the end of our problems.
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.
people realizing said
People have said, "You've turned your back on pediatrics." I said, "No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics."
strong long people
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.
children believe people
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.
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.
baby diapers size
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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...