Benjamin Spock Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, Dad, Parenting

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.580, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Benjamin Spock

  Spiritual, Teacher, Sex

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2004). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 8th Edition”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

• All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

  Benjamin Spock

  Baby, Children, Learning

• The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

  Benjamin Spock

  Jobs, Children, Parenting

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Benjamin Spock

  Teacher, Sex, Children

• Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, Opportunity, Parent

  Benjamin Spock (1994). “A better world for our children: rebuilding American family values”, Natl Pr Books

• What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

  Benjamin Spock

  Peace, Children, War

• 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.

  Benjamin Spock

  Strong, Jobs, Children

• 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.

  Benjamin Spock

  Prayer, People, Parent

• 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.

  Benjamin Spock

  Horse, Children, Fear

• 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.

  Benjamin Spock

  Baby, Book, Differences

• Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don't mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.

  Benjamin Spock

  Teacher, Children, Mean

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (1985). “Raising Children in a Difficult Time”, Pocket

• Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, Punishment, Parent

  Benjamin Spock (1992). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care”

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