Dr Spock

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.

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.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

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

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?

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- All from Benjamin McLane Spock, 1903 - 1998

About: Benjamin McLane Spock was born at New Haven, Connecticut on 2 May in 1903. After a strict and somewhat bizarre childhood he studied medicine, and in 1946 wrote The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care which became, for better or worse, the operating manual for a whole generation of children. (Including yours truly.) While at Yale he rowed competitively, including winning a Gold in the 1924 Summer Olympics in an "eight". He came under attack for his politics in the 'seventies, he was against nuclear weapons and the Vietnam war, in favor of civil and women's rights, and ran for president in 1972.