Benjamin Spock

Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

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

Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.

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

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the 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 how awful it might be.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

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

When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began.

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?

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.

We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.

I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at home or in school; no grades. Let athletics be primarily for fun, and let them be organized by children and youths themselves.

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

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

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.

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

It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.