“In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.”

—Dr. Benjamin Spock

“In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.”

—Dr. Benjamin Spock.

“All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.”

—Benjamin Spock, pediatrician and author (2 May 1903-1998).