“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.”

“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.”

“There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age. ”

“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.”

“People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.”

“When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.”

“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.”

“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?”

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

“There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.”