Benjamin Spock’s enduring gift is the comfort he provided parents who came to a new job with no training.In his landmark 1946 book, “Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care,” the tall, graceful ...

Benjamin Spock's book, "Baby… In the beginning, there was Dr. Spock. New parents turned to him for advice on how to feed their babies, put them to bed, toilet-train them and treat their diaper rash.

When I heard about Dr. Benjamin Spock’s death at the age of 94 recently, I wanted to read “Baby and Child Care” again to pay him homage. But first I had to locate my well-thumbed copy, which ...

Instead, “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Childcare,” written by Dr. Benjamin Spock and published in 1946, encouraged parents to think for themselves and to trust their instincts.

Benjamin Spock's book, "Baby… In the beginning, there was Dr. Spock. New parents turned to him for advice on how to feed their babies, put them to bed, toilet-train them and treat their diaper rash.

He’s probably the only pediatrician who has been on “perpetual house call for millions of American families over the past half-century.”He is, of course, Dr. Benjamin Spock, subject of a ...

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.

Dr. Benjamin Spock is 91 and worried. Not about the usual things, like health — “I don’t feel great, ... or money — his famous child-care book still sells half a million copies ...

Pediatrician Dr Benjamin Spock, ... Spock’s “Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care,” published in 1946, became a huge bestseller, second only to the Bible, ...