Word: spock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main job of a pediatrician is not to cure normal diseases--the children do that themselves--but rather to reassure the mother. This, in America, is a terribly difficult job." Difficult or not, the speaker, Dr. Benjamin Spock, could claim phenomenal success at the task. Known to countless young parents as the author of Baby and Child Care, he is the most famous baby-doctor in America today...
...tall, relaxed man with a good sense of humor, Dr. Spock discussed his own childhood at lunch with undergraduates in Lowell House. The eldest of six children ("with very strict parents"), he recalled that all his brothers and sisters had become involved in child care in one way or another: two became teachers, one a child psychologist, and one a Master at a prep school. Dr. Spock himself attended Andover and Yale, where he rowed on the Yale Olympic Crew...
Baby and Child Care first appeared in 1946. Since then, it has sold more than 15 million copies in this country, and has been translated into 26 languages. Although Dr. Spock has authored or co-authored four books since, it is this book which has made his world-wide reputation. Someone asked if his fame had drawbacks...
...there any Freudian theory you find unacceptable?" one spectator asked the tall child psychologist. Spock answered that he only found fault with several modern interpretations of Freud. "I can never get over how smart Freud was," Spock added, "not to have tried to advise parents how to bring up their children...
...higher the educational level, however, however, the more inhibited, Dr. Spock continued. Referring to the Kinsey reports, he stated that the college student is likely to satisfy his sexual drive much later them the uneducated individual...