Benjamin Spock’s enduring gift is the comfort he provided parents who came to a new job with no training.In his landmark 1946 book, “Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care,” the tall, graceful ...

Instead, “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Childcare,” written by Dr. Benjamin Spock and published in 1946, encouraged parents to think for themselves and to trust their instincts.

When I heard about Dr. Benjamin Spock’s death at the age of 94 recently, I wanted to read “Baby and Child Care” again to pay him homage. But first I had to locate my well-thumbed copy, which ...

Ever since Dr. Benjamin Spock published “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” in 1946, parents have been reading up on the best way to raise their little ones. Don’t miss out on the ...

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.

He’s probably the only pediatrician who has been on “perpetual house call for millions of American families over the past half-century.”He is, of course, Dr. Benjamin Spock, subject of a ...

Books published in electronic form to be read on tablet-sized readers are, in some cases, outstripping sales of conventional hard-copy volumes. E-books on parenting, for example, are, if not ...

Benjamin Spock's book, "Baby… In the beginning, there was Dr. Spock. New parents turned to him for advice on how to feed their babies, put them to bed, toilet-train them and treat their diaper rash.

Pediatrician Dr Benjamin Spock, ... Spock’s “Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care,” published in 1946, became a huge bestseller, second only to the Bible, ...

A new generation has its own Dr. Spock — and a very different take on parenting Author Emily Oster, right, at a book reading in Washington last year. (Leigh Vogel / Getty Images for Emily Oster) ...