But my first awareness of the name Spock came from a 25-cent paperback (pocket book) that my parents kept on their night stand for bedtime reading. The book was on child rearing and authored by Dr.

Pediatrician Dr Benjamin Spock, seen examining a child in 1964, revolutionized American child-rearing by advising parents to rely more on a loving “common sense” approach.

Relax. That`s the advice from Dr. Benjamin Spock, the 86-year-old patriarch of child-care advice, who was in Chicago Saturday to open an exhibit on families at the Field Museum of Natural History.

Every generation has its parent whisperer. My mother and father had Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician who promoted the revolutionary idea that children should be cherished and held, not whipped or ...

Spock’s gold medal came as a member of the undefeated crew team from Yale, which represented America in the 1924 Olympics and, as one contemporary Olympic account put it, achieved “glory on ...

Dr. Benjamin Spock, in addition to many other accolades, deserves praise for his work int he fight to stop segregating Glenville students, Susan Kaeser of Cleveland Heights writes in a letter to ...

In 1946, Dr. Benjamin Spock (no relation to Dr. Spock of Star Trek) authored Baby and Child Care, the international bestseller, which sold 50 million copies in Spock's lifetime.

But in 1946, Benjamin Spock inaugurated a slightly more forgiving tradition. In the first line of his blockbuster bestseller, “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care,” he counseled ...

Every generation has its parent whisperer. My mother and father had Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician who promoted the revolutionary idea that children should be cherished and held, not whipped or ...

Every generation has its parent whisperer. My mother and father had Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician who promoted the revolutionary idea that children should be cherished and held, not whipped or ...