Word: spock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus does famed Pediatrician Benjamin Spock describe his own childhood in his new book, Feeding Your Baby and Child, written with Nutritionist Miriam E. Lowenberg (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.75). Young Ben Spock's individual difficulties with food were the commonest kind: he was "something of a feeding problem," "very squeamish about lumps in cereal and scum on cocoa," and could not eat summer squash for 35 years because his mother forced it down him at the age of five...
...most relaxed and one of its most permissive authorities on the raising of children, Pediatrician Spock frames his advice to mothers so as to give today's kids the benefit of what he learned the hard...
Solomonic wisdom); the three-meals-a-day routine is too arbitrary.
However, Dr. Spock still insists on some rules: "Candy does a child no good, and encourages decay of the teeth. Postpone it as long as possible . . . Most important, don't offer it as a bribe for eating other foods or being good. This dangling of candy before a child keeps increasing his appetite...
...Spock (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Famed baby specialist begins a series on child care...