There is a call for change by the family of a woman killed in public last week. They want Bailey McCourt's death to be a ...

On May 2, Dr. Benjamin Spock would have celebrated his 100th birthday. His popular book Baby and Child Carechanged the world of parenting when it was first published in 1946. He brought about a ...

In Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (Pocket Books, 1998), a book that has sold 40 million copies, Dr. Spock recommends this approach in dealing with aggressive behavior: ...

Yet, while the rules of child-rearing is an ever-changing sport, great mom style (aka your school drop-off look) hasn’t really changed—and that’s a good thing. What reads as cool mom is ...

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 ...

Ever since the pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock came along, the Biblical admonition of “Spare the rod; spoil the child,” went from a time-honored truth to a modern-day no-no. His book, Baby and Child ...

Parents who lived through the Depression years had been raised under hard times with experts whose advice to their parents on child rearing emphasized rigidity and being strict. Dr. Spock’s ...

The effect can be dizzying — are we doing gentle parenting now or what? Indeed, child-rearing advice tends to be cyclical and reactionary, with each trend reversing what came before.

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.

An ardent proponent of behaviorism, Watson published both academic papers on infant development and wildly popular articles about child-rearing during the 1920s.