Spock’s child-rearing manual was second only to the Bible in volume of sales in the United States. His ideas reached even those who did not read him, via the mass media and doctors who relied on ...

But Dr. Spock, who died in 1998 at age 94, is now only one of a flock of medical authorities whose works inhabit the child-rearing shelves of bookstores. Dr. Barton D. Schmitt, Dr. T. Berry ...

Dr Benjamin Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care is one of the best-selling books of all time, with overall sales of some 50 million. Sixty-five years since its first publication, what ...

For millions of Millennials, Dr. Becky has become the go-to voice of reason in the chaos of child-rearing. Write to Eliana ...

As a tribute to this man, the book is now named, “Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care.” Dr. Benjamin Spock died in 1998 at the age of 94. Despite the criticisms of Spock over the years, most us who were ...

It became the widely-accepted bible on child rearing, and much of the advice Dr. Spock offered therein ran against the grain of what had previously been the accepted standard for bringing up children.

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.

According to Spock, whose child-rearing book, “Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care” has become one of the all-time best sellers worldwide, “kids don’t have to be disciplined into adulthood ...

Among them is Richard Ferber, the author of the 20-year-old child-rearing classic, Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems, who, like Dr. Spock before him, is more than a household name.

Remembering Dr. Spock Famous child psychologist would have turned 100 today. By Colin Allen published May 1, 2003 - last reviewed on June 4, 2025 ...

Sixty-five years on, however, Dr Spock's Baby and Child Care is still in print - and it continues to influence generations of parents. Witness is the BBC World Service's 10-minute history programme.