Occupation: Pediatrician Birth: May 2, 1903 Death: March 15, 1998
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior..
Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may r….
I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to st….
I love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing...I want them to remember I was a da….
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 pedia….
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidenc….
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically..
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 o….
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation..
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 ….
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 tha….
...the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are beholden to industry. They always will be. And, the American people are fooled when they think t….
The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return..
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age..
The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as ….
Biologically and temperamentally... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care..
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal..