"There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age."
― Benjamin Spock
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Age
― Benjamin Spock
More From Benjamin Spock
- "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."
- "When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable."
- "The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering."
More In Age
- "I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the ‘permanent quarterback.’ I didn’t know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys."― Junior Seau
- "Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age."― Sinclair Lewis
- "In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty."― Thomas Jefferson