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Benjamin Spock Biography

Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-sellers of all time. The book's premise to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do."

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It's not the words but the music that counts.

Counts, Music, Words

I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of the rigidities of pediatric tradition, particularly in infant feeding. It emphasized the importance of great differences between individual babies, of the need for flexibility and of the lack of necessity to worry constantly about spoiling.

Babies, Baby, Book, Differences, Importance, Individual

Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.

Essence, Increasing, Mean, Time, Together

I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

Come, Problem, Realization, Spiritual

. . . the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are beholden to industry. They always will be. And, the American people are fooled when they think that if you can just get McGovern instead of Humphrey, or if you can get a Democrat instead of a Republican, this will be the end of our problems.

American, Humphrey, Party, People, Thinking

The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidences in themselves - happy. They will have a spirit that will make the best of all the capacities that they have, and of all the opportunities that come their way. They will make light of any handicaps.

Children, Clumsy, Growing Up, Handicaps, Light, Parenting

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's 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.

Children, Dread, Expressed, Fear, Horse

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Mom, Mother, Baby, Mothers, Good, Fathers

Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

Freedom, Grandchildren, Grandparent, See, Uncritically

Biologically and temperamentally. . . women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.

Care, Children, Foremost, Home, Husband, Women

I think that parents ought to get some idea of how the so- called "experts" have changed their advice over the decades, so that they won't take them deadly seriously, and so that if the parent has the strong feeling, "I don't like this advice," the parent won't feel compelled to follow it. . . . So don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.

Children, Idea, Jobs, Parent, Strong, Way

How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.

Baby, Diaper, Diapers, Size

Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, 'Now I'm going to read my paper' than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.

Enjoyably, Father, Girl, Possible, Read, Zoos

This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal to develop, to industrialize our country so rapidly and so successfully - now it's clearly passed its usefulness. It is keeping us from achieving the ideal society that we should have. We say industry must produce to improve the quality of life for all our people.

Achieving, Country, Exclusively, Industry, People, Should Have

People have said, "You've turned your back on pediatrics. " I said, "No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics. "

60S, People, Realizing, Said, Took

I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.

Inborn, Occupation, Trying, Utilized, Women

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

Discipline, Growing Up, Learning, Love, Return

Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts - there is just too much misery and cruelty for that.

Affairs, Human, Parent, People, Prayer, Precepts

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.

Children, Deserve, Growing Up, Human, Respect

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

Children, Job, Jobs, Perfect, Raising

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