Quote by Benjamin Spock
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steeri

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

Other quotes by Benjamin Spock

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble? – Benjamin Spock

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War
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There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mothers age. – Benjamin Spock

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Age
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Every child senses, with all the horse sense thats in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be. – Benjamin Spock

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Anger
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Other Quotes from
parenting
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. – Ogden Nash

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parenting

Im trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. – Eddie Vedder

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parenting

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. – Meryl Streep

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parenting

Its a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. – Anne Sullivan

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parenting

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A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence. – Thomas Traherne

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Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique and too soon gone. – Deborah Whipp

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Christmas

Too much zeal spoils everything. – Proverb

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The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. – George Sheehan

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Running