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. – Benjamin Spock
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. – Benjamin Spock
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. – 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