Babies are on our mind these days, and often for all the wrong reasons. It makes you wonder what America’s famous pediatrician, Dr. Benjamin Spock, who died 25 years ago Wednesday, would say to us now ...

Pocket Books is releasing two companion collections of essays by the bestselling Benjamin Spock, the author of Baby and Child Care, one of the most widely read parenting books ever written. Both are ...

Dr. Benjamin Spock’s "Baby and Child Care" book, first published in 1946, was a principal guide for parents in the post-World War II era. It is now in its 10th edition, with over 50 million copies ...

In my case, at least, the timing was impeccable. Many decades ago this week, just as I was making my debut as a member of the human race, a young, largely unknown pediatrician published a book about ...

Nicolaus Mills’ July 21 commentary on Dr. Spock (Cleveland’s Dr. Benjamin Spock and his 1924 Olympic gold medal in Paris) was a refreshing case study of a person who acted on his values and confronted ...

In the pantheon of parenting gurus, Dr. Spock appears to have legendary staying power. Nowadays, there are shelves full of niche parenting books, offering advice on raising twins or singletons, ...

NEW YORK -- Babies born today aren't much different from babies born in 1943, but the world they're born into has seen many changes. That's why the eighth edition of "Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care" ...

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 ...

There were two dramatic moments at Tuesday’s sit-in demonstration. The first was pure ritual: the arrival of the demonstrators in the pre-dawn darkness. They trickled toward the assembly area at Peter ...

The sequel, Dr. Spock's The School Years, addresses the preschool years through adolescence, tackling issues like sibling rivalry, education, popularity, discipline, drugs and alcohol, peer pressure, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Santa Monica Breast Surgeon and Founder of the Pink Lotus Breast Center Kristi Funk, MD, FACS, received the Benjamin Spock Award for Compassion in Medicine at the International ...