In 1946, just as the baby boom begins, Dr. Spock writes Baby and Child Care, a common-sense book about childhood ailments. The pediatrician advises parents to reject harsh discipline, and be more ...

If Dr. Benjamin Spock hadn't been cremated, he'd be rolling over in his grave right now. As many who were reared on the lefty ...

Until Dr. Spock came along in the late 1940s ... So this author counsels to feed on demand. Your baby knows best what he needs. Follow his lead with regard to feeding and you'll rarely go wrong.

“So I wrote this whole book in the closet at night … I had a hard deadline because I was gonna have a baby in March, and my daughter was very, very obliging.” “I finished it just in the ...

Few jobs are as creative as child rearing, but too many of us tend to belittle it "because anybody can have a baby," Dr. Benjamin M. Spock told an audience at Lowell House last night. On the other ...

Yet here was Spock telling the House of Medicine that every mother could trust her own instincts and feed her baby "when he seems ... Jay Katz in his 1984 book, The Silent World of Doctor and ...

It is partially for this reason that children's and YA fiction is under such intense assault from book banners. They ...

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