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...baby's smile is also a kind of judgment on the care that its mother has been providing. "All these new data about how early the baby can distinguish things should upgrade motherhood, restore some prestige to it," says Dr. Benjamin Spock, 80, who taught a benign form of child rearing to a whole generation of Americans. "Motherhood has had an ever reduced amount of importance placed on it in our strange, overly intellectualized, overly scientific society...
...baby sitter, he decided on pediatrics. He went to Princeton, starred in Triangle Club theatricals, even got an offer in 1940 to try out on Broadway for an Ethel Merman musical, Panama Hattie, but he held on to the goal of healing infants. His hero, he says, was Benjamin Spock, and although Brazelton is now regarded as the new Spock, he considers himself more a disciple than a rival of the older...
...Like Spock, Brazelton makes it a cardinal rule to reassure anxious parents and to encourage them to trust their instincts. "Parents in our culture are so hungry for people to tell them what to do and so vulnerable as a result," he says. "I feel very strongly that telling them what to do is destructive. Supporting them for what they can do is constructive...
There are other, nonconstitutional concerns as well. Though most youngsters seem to enjoy the fingerprinting ritual, Pediatrician Benjamin Spock warned two weeks ago that "children worry about things they don't understand." And they may worry if they do understand the fear that prompts their parents. Is taking a child's fingerprints effective? Mary Jones of Florida's Missing Children Information Clearinghouse, who supports the new programs, acknowledges, "Fingerprinting helps only if we find a child who is either small and can't say his name or an amnesia victim or dead...
...this "wrap," the articles and advertising are the same nationwide. The first issue highlights: an insider's look at how hosts were chosen for the Academy Awards show, with a calendar showing when nominated films will reach cable; a profile of Leonard Nimoy, who plays Mr. Spock in Star Trek; and a report on a cable series for children, Faerie Tale Theater. The listings are tersely descriptive rather than critical ("so that you can use your own good judgment," says a message to readers), though capsule movie reviews poke some mild fun, even at films carried on Time...