"She said, 'He'll know when it's the right time for him,' that it's important to let him do it on his own," says McGinnis, the mother of three in Timonium, Maryland. "In the back of my mind, I said to ...

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 ...

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 ...