“No other book has come near it, except for the Bible. And I am proud that parents think of it as reassuring. The best letter I ever got was from a woman who said,”
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Benjamin Spock
Benjamin McLane Spock, widely known as Dr. Spock, was an American pediatrician, Olympic medallist, and left-wing political activist. His book Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-selling books of the 20th century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. The book's premise told mothers, "You know more than…
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science · American pediatrician, political activist, and writer (1903–1998) · physician · military officer · rower · pedagogue · university teacher · psychiatrist · politician · psychologist · educator · pediatrician · also Benjamin Spock, Benjamin McLane Spock, Dr. Spock, Spock
Born 2 May 1903 · Died 15 March 1998 · Q310694
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It sounds so simple. But it is hard for a doctor who has been taught that he knows it all, that patients are ignoramuses.
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2026· 5 entries
“It sounds so simple. But it is hard for a doctor who has been taught that he knows it all, that patients are ignoramuses.”
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“The could be more helpful if they were more aggressive with Ben,”
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“because he saw me only as a wife and mother. I was expected to have a good dinner ready when he came home. I don”
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“I helped in one once in Charlotte Amalie, and I was a great success”
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2002· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “The son of child care expert Dr. Benjamin Spock killed himself.” False.
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1998· 11 entries
Benjamin Spock died at a house he was renting in La Jolla, California
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Died 1998-03-15.
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“Dzieci z łatwością przyzwyczajają się do tego, że przysługują im specjalne przywileje. Gdy choroba wiąże się z dokuczliwymi dolegliwościami, nawołują rodziców bez przerwy, dyrygują nimi i tyranizują ich.”
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“I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.”
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“Dążąc po omacku do odnalezienia swej tożsamości nastolatki przybierają rozmaite pozy: marzyciela, kosmopolity, cynika, bojownika straconej sprawy, ascety.”
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“Ci rodzice, którym szczególnie zależy na tym, by dzieci wyrosły na ludzi odważnych i odpornych, obawiają się często, że pocieszanie nauczy je biadolenia. Jednak pewne siebie dziecko nie utraci ducha z tego tylko powodu, że rodzice okażą mu czasem współczucie.”
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On March 15, 1998, Benjamin Spock died at a house he was renting in La Jolla, California.
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“Rodzice powinni sugerować dorastającemu dziecku swoją postawą, nie ujmując nawet tego w słowa, że zdają sobie sprawę z tego, iż będzie ono przez większość czasu poza zasięgiem ich kontroli i dlatego jego posłuszeństwo będzie dyktowane przez głos sumienia i szacunek dla rodziców, nie zaś przez obawę przed karą lub świadomość bycia pod ciągłą kontrolą.”
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“Może się wydawać, że w USA najprostszą drogą wiodącą do osiągnięcia przez kobiety pełni satysfakcji byłoby zapewnienie im przez społeczeństwo równych praw z mężczyznami do pracy tak samo płatnej i o tym samym prestiżu. Z pewnością kobiety powinny mieć ten rodzaj równouprawnienia.”
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“Mamy przytłaczające swoim ogromem zapasy najpotężniejszych broni, jakie kiedykolwiek znał świat. A mimo to wisi nad nami groźba zagłady, bez nadziei na rozwiązanie w najbliższej przyszłości i bez pewności jutra. Dufni w naszą potęgę wtrącamy się butnie w sprawy innych narodów, budząc oburzenie całego świata, a ponadto wydajemy biliony na wyścigi w zdobywaniu kosmosu.”
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“Nastolatek szczególnie silnie odczuwa potrzebę naśladowania rówieśników; jeśli ich sposób bycia niepokoi lub irytuje rodziców, tym lepiej.”
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1992· 1 entry
Spock received the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award at the John F
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1991· 3 entries
And was quoted as saying, "My own preference, if I had the good fortune to have another son, would be to leave his little penis alone
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After a series of illnesses that left him weak and unable to walk unaided
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By 1991, Spock was unable to walk without assistance and was reported as infirm shortly before his death.
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1976· 2 entries
For vice president as the running mate of Margaret Wright
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Spock married Mary Morgan
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1972· 1 entry
Spock, Julius Hobson (his vice presidential candidate), Linda Jenness (Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate), and Socialist Workers Party vice presidential candidate Andrew Pulley wrote to Major General Bert A
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1969· 1 entry
A federal court set aside his conviction
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1968· 5 entries
Awarded Humanist of the Year (1968).
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Awarded Gandhi Peace Award (1968).
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The American Humanist Association named Spock Humanist of the Year
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And four others—(William Sloane Coffin, Marcus Raskin, Mitchell Goodman, and Michael Ferber)—were singled out for prosecution by then Attorney General Ramsey Clark on charges of conspiracy to counsel, aid, and abet re
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Spock signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War, and he later became a sponsor of the War Tax Resistance project, which practiced and advoca
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1967· 1 entry
Spock was pressed to run as Martin Luther King Jr
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1962· 1 entry
Spock joined The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, otherwise known as SANE
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1948· 1 entry
Awarded E. Mead Johnson Award (1948).
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1946· 2 entries
By Duell, Sloan & Pearce as The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
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Spock published The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, which became a best-seller
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1924· 1 entry
“t have to be disciplined into adulthood but can direct themselves toward adulthood by following their own will. Olympic success Spock was part of the all-Yale men”
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1903· 1 entry
Born 1903-05-02.
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