Word: brazelton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symbol that we understand what these families are going through," said Clinical Professor of Pediatrics T. Barry Brazelton, who works at Children's Hospital in Boston...
...generally brief and unpaid. This forces many women to return to work sooner than they would like and creates a huge demand for infant care, the most expensive and difficult child-care service to supply. The premature separation takes a personal toll as well, observes Harvard Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton, heir apparent to Benjamin Spock as the country's pre-eminent guru on child rearing. "Many parents return to the workplace grieving...
...parents a weeklong course called How to Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence so that the toddler can achieve "encyclopedic knowledge." A & common upshot of such regimens, say critics, is robot virtuosity with little understanding and no lasting gain. The most reliable head start parents can provide, asserts T. Berry Brazelton, professor of pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School, in his 1985 book Working and Caring, is to back off from the pushy stuff, which he condemns as "a way for young parents to feel successful in their parenting." Says Ellen Kinberg, the Los Angeles regional director of Children's World...
Peale and Agnew had a point of sorts but the wrong villain. In the 1940s and 1950s an airy permissiveness arose that may have contributed to the great campus tantrums of the late 1960s. Says Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton of Harvard Medical School: "The parents I was taking care of in the '50s were terribly concerned that their children be pleased at all times. But that's not Ben's fault. If you look in the book, there's nothing permissive in there...
Despite his recent emphasis on cross-cultural comparisons. Brazelton has established a multidisciplinary training program for pediatricians interested in infants. His graduates have replicated the program at teaching hospitals around the country. "He has fostered and been mentor to the research of a lot of prominent pediatricians." Tronick says...