The best Quotes by Benjamin Spock

The best Quotes by Benjamin Spock

Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 - March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician and left-wing political activist whose book Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century.

On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.
Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.
People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.