Benjamin Spock: Parenting

Benjamin Spock was American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care. Explore interesting quotes on parenting.

Benjamin Spock: 38 quotes1 like

“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 usually best after all. All parents do their best job when they have a natural, easy confidence in themselves. Better to make a few mistakes from being natural than to try to do everything letter-perfect out of a feeling of worry.”

Benjamin Spock book The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

Ch. 1. http://books.google.com/books?id=AEk0AAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+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+usually+best+after+all%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage <br class="br">Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945)

“As parents and teachers we need to bring up more of our children with generosity of spirit.”

Benjamin Spock

Source: Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior (1970), p. 132

“In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.”

Benjamin Spock

Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945)

“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

Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945)