"There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age." ― Benjamin Spock Topic(s): Age More From Benjamin Spock "Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do." "Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled." "The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering." More In Age "The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."― Aldous Huxley "It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."― Robert Green Ingersoll "I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women’s rules."― Joan Jett