Dr. Spock On Parenting: Sensible, Reassuring Advice for Today's Parent

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An essential guide for today's parents -- from the world-renowned pediatrician and author of Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care. In this classic text, Dr. Benjamin Spock addresses the changing of traditional family structure and the challenges contemporary parents face. From two-job families to single parenthood, this timely reference offers sound, reliable advice on today's difficult parenting issues, including: understanding the role of the modern father developing healthy eating habits adapting career demands to a baby's needs evaluating child care outside the home handling your child in public places dealing with sleeping problems teaching your child about strangers nurturing your child's potential talking to children about sex, disease, death, religion and God handling divorce and custody questions

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Benjamin Spock, M.D., practiced pediatrics in New York City from 1933 to 1947. He then became a medical teacher and researcher at the Mayo Clinic, the University of Pittsburgh, and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. The author of eleven books, he was a political activist for causes that vitally affect children: disarmament, day care, schooling, housing, and medical care for all. He had two sons, a stepdaughter, and four grandchildren. Dr. Spock, who died March 15, 1998, at age ninety-four, was married to Mary Morgan. Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care has been translated into thirty-nine languages and has sold fifty million copies worldwide since its first publication in 1946.