Benjamin Spock Quotes

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

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.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

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

Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.

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.

I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

Don’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.