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.

Dr. Benjamin Spock, who remains controversial even after death for pushing a vegetarian diet for young children in the latest edition of his baby book, was an anti-war activist, civil rights ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It was Sunday, June 25, 1972, and Dr. Benjamin Spock was walking uptown with the Christopher Street Liberation Day March, the scrappier, more revolutionary precursor to the New York City Pride Parade.