“There are only two things a child will share willingly—communicable diseases and his mother's age.”

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

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American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care 1903–1998

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“There are only two things a child will share willingly—communicable diseases and his mother's age.”

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