Books By Benjamin Spock
- Baby and Child Care (1946, with revisions up to ninth edition, 2012)
- A Baby's First Year (1954)
- Feeding Your Baby and Child (1955)
- Dr. Spock Talks With Mothers (1961)
- Problems of Parents (1962)
- Caring for Your Disabled Child (1965)
- Dr. Spock on Vietnam (1968)
- Decent and Indecent (1970)
- A Teenager's Guide to Life and Love (1970)
- Raising Children in a Difficult Time (1974)
- Spock on Parenting (1988)
- Spock on Spock: a Memoir of Growing Up With the Century (1989)
- A Better World for Our Children (1994)
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“In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.”
—Benjamin Spock (b. 1903)
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“I think that parents ought to get some idea of how the so- called “experts” have changed their advice over the decades, so that they won’t take them deadly seriously, and so that if the parent has the strong feeling, “I don’t like this advice,” the parent won’t feel compelled to follow it. . . . So don’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.”
—Benjamin Spock (b. 1903)