Word: spock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean James Pike, Episcopal Bishop of California, in the first of an informal series of chats; the opening show's guest is Pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock, a bible writer in his own right...
...Little Woman and her big roller pin, committed the ultimate betrayal of privacy every TV evening: the advertising grab-bag of under-arm deodorants, living bras, toilet tissue, toe-nail paint, perfume, mouthwash, and the Potato Sack look. Sex was the province of the Ladies Home Journal. Dr. Spock replaced the Bible. Bohemia in pink panties was more organized nymphomania than Art. Greenwich Village was overrun with mop-headed, turtle-necked, tweed-wrapped, smudge-faced, and beer-reeking femmes fatale, with Wallace Stevens under one arm and Well of Loneliness under the other...
...would be most affected knew nothing about it, there was Dig news for babies this week. Clattering off the presses was a revised version of the gospel by which half a U.S. generation has been raised: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, by Pediatrician Benjamin McLane Spock (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $5; Pocket Books, 50?). To the original edition, which has sold more than 9,000,000 copies since 1946, Author Spock has added some 100 pages. The gist of his revisions and additions reflects the changing climate of the past decade: parents ought to be more permissive...
...Trust Yourself." When Spock wrote his first edition, a pseudoscientific strictness, introduced in the 1920s, was the rule-"Don't pick up the baby when he cries, feed him only at precise four-hour intervals." Spock stepped to the head of the pediatricians who were trying to encourage greater flexibility in baby care. They succeeded too well, he now feels: "Nowadays there seems to be more chance of a conscientious parent's getting into trouble with permissiveness [toward children] than with strictness." Keynote of Spock's latest advice to parents: "Trust yourself." Instinct, he says, prompts most...
Parents who were themselves raised by a set code will tend to rear their children the same way. They should go ahead and do so with no qualms of conscience, advises the 1957 Spock, though they must make due allowance for the more relaxed atmosphere in families around them. They must not be overharsh but they have a right to get cross and spank the little darling when he has deliberately provoked anger-as he often does. What is more, he wants (at least unconsciously) to be disciplined and made to behave responsibly: "By keeping children on the right track...