Benjamin Spock Quotes

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

One of the best things about good mothers is that they remind their children to take care of themselves.

I went to my local Sure Start centre, and they put me on a parenting course. I learned things that might seem simple - that it was important to hug and love your child, and read to them. This might seem obvious, but it wasn't to me at the time.

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

I'd be the best mum ever. I would. I've got great training from my mum.

The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.

That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

I think motherhood is just about instinct.

An incredible number of people have raised children who aren't too screwed up. Surely, I won't be the worst at it.

I think there's different parenting styles.

What instruction the baby brings to the mother!

I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.

I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.