Benjamin Spock Quotes

Most popular Benjamin Spock Quotes

You know more than you think you do. - Benjamin Spock quote.
You know more than you think you do.
— Benjamin Spock

parents

I really learned it all from mothers. - Benjamin Spock quote.
I really learned it all from mothers.
— Benjamin Spock
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. - Benjamin Spock quote.
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
— Benjamin Spock

hopeful

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. - Benjamin Spock quote.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
— Benjamin Spock

parenting

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. - Benjamin Spock quote.
In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
— Benjamin Spock Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

parenting parents

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 quote.
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

parenting

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 quote.
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 Raising Children in a Difficult Time

parenting trust adolescence

Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God. - Benjamin Spock quote.
Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God.
— Benjamin Spock Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior

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