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 pediatrics.”
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
I really learned it all from mothers.
If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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.
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’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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 confidence.
Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
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.
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work...
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.
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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 over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts – there is just too much misery and cruelty for that.
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.