Zitate und Sprüche von Benjamin Spock

Im Durchschnitt sind Eltern flexibler, toleranter, verständnisvoller und glücklicher, je älter sie sind.

On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.

Vorschulkinder sind Virtuosen der Fantasie.

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.

People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.

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

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