When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Benjamin Spock
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About Benjamin Spock
Benjamin McLane Spock, widely known as Dr. Spock, was an American pediatrician, Olympic medallist, and left-wing political activist. His book Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-selling books of the 20th century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. The book's premise told mothers, "You know more than you think you do." Spock was widely regarded as a trusted source for parenting advice in his genera…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Benjamin SpockWhat 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?
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
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.
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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.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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 h…
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.