Dr. Benjamin Spock

November 22, 2009

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Dr. Benjamin Spock

ARTICLES WRITTEN BY DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK

Adolescence: Duties and Responsibilities - 04/19/01

Adoption: Adoption and Age Considerations

Choosing an Adoption Agency

When to Tell a Child She Is Adopted

Why People Choose to Adopt

Talking with Your Adolescent about His Adoption - 03/19/01

Talking with a Preschooler about His Adoption - 02/22/01

Talking with a School-Age Child about Her Adoption - 02/22/01

Baby Supplies: Pacifiers

The Use of Playpens

Brains and Thinking: Birth to Age Two: A Critical Period for Brain Development

Can You Create a Superbaby?

How Thinking Starts

Little Scientists: How Young Children Think

Preschoolers: Magical and Egocentric Thinking

Stages in Cognitive Development

Breastfeeding: Getting Started: Breastfeeding Positions

Child Abuse and Neglect: Child Abuse

Child Care: Continuity in Caregivers Is Best

Chores & Jobs: Duties and Responsibilities - 04/19/01

Clothes & Shoes: Dressing Themselves: An Acquired Skill - 04/19/01

Colic: A Parent's Reaction to Colic

Colic: If Nothing Works

Things to Try for a Colicky Baby

Why Does Colic Happen?

Crying: Crying in Infants: Possible Causes

Crying: The Early Weeks

Death and Grieving: Death: Answering Your Preschooler's Questions

Helping Children Cope with Death

Dental Care: Pacifiers

Depression: Depressed Feelings in New Mothers

Diapering Baby: Diaper Rash And Diarrhea

Discipline: Discipline Overview

Discipline: Avoid Threats

Firm but Friendly Discipline

Getting a Handle on Anger

Is Punishment Necessary?

Practical Advice about Discipline

Teaching Your Toddler the Ground Rules

What Spanking Accomplishes

Why Some Parents Avoid Discipline

With Discipline, Stick to Your Convictions

Divorce: Custody Issues in Divorce

Divorce: Telling the Children

Divorce: A Closer Look at Joint Custody

Divorce: Overview

Marriage Counseling

Drugs and Alcohol: Symptoms of Drug Abuse - 04/26/01

The Difference between Drug Abuse and Experimentation - 04/26/01

When Your Older Adolescent May be Using Drugs - 04/26/01

When Your Younger Adolescent May be Using Drugs - 04/26/01

Emotions During Pregnancy: Depressed Feelings in New Mothers

Emotions: What They Mean: Are You Overprotective?

Continuity in Caregivers Is Best

Emotional Development: The Crucial First Years

Separation Anxiety

Entertaining Your Baby: Playing with Your Infant

The Use of Playpens

Favorite Toys in Early Childhood - 04/19/01

Fathering: The Father as Single Parent

The Role of Dads

Fears: Are You Overprotective?

Fear of the Bath

Fear of the Dark

Fears Around Age Two: Separation, Bed Wetting

Fears at Bedtime

Fears in Preschool Children

Starting School or Preschool

Why Do Children Have Fears?

Friends and Peers: How to Help Your School-Age Child Make Friends

The Unpopular Child (School Age)

Gay and Lesbian Parents: Gay and Lesbian Parents

Gay and Lesbian Parents: A Further Look

Grandparents: Dealing with Dominating Grandparents - 03/28/01

Grandparents' Relationship with Parents - 03/28/01

Grandparents, Parents and Children: An Overview - 03/28/01

When Grandparent-Parent Relationships Are Tense - 03/28/01

When Grandparents Provide Child Care - 03/28/01

Habit Problems: Head-banging and Other Repetitive Movements

Immunizations: General: Spock on Immunizations - 04/06/01

Media Watch: What Research Has Taught about Child-Rearing

Mental Health Care: Child Mental Health Professionals - 04/10/01

Finding a Mental Health Professional for Your Child - 04/10/01

Misbehavior: Miscellaneous: Begging for Food

Motor Development: Creeping and Crawling

Standing

Walking

Dressing Themselves: An Acquired Skill - 04/19/01

Newborn Care: Newborn's First Days at Home

Pacifiers

Taking Care of the Umbilical Cord - 10/31/01

Newborns: Problems: Heat Rash (Prickly Heat) And Babies

Preparing Your Firstborn for the New Baby

Parenting: Are You Overprotective?

Can You Treat Siblings Equally?

Maintaining Values in Today's Complex World

Nature and Nurture Interact

Nature or Nurture?

Parenting: Trust Yourself

Parents Have Needs, Too

Quality Time

What Research Has Taught about Child-Rearing

Duties and Responsibilities - 04/19/01

Placenta, Cord and Amniotic Fluid: Taking Care of the Umbilical Cord - 10/31/01

Preschool: Starting School or Preschool

The Role of Preschool - 07/30/01

The Role of Preschool - 07/30/01

The Role of Preschool - 07/30/01

Adjustment Problems in Preschool - 07/25/01

Adjustment Problems in Preschool - 07/25/01

Adjustment Problems in Preschool - 07/25/01

Handling the First Days of Preschool - 07/25/01

Handling the First Days of Preschool - 07/25/01

Handling the First Days of Preschool - 07/25/01

Rashes and Skin Care: Diaper Rash And Diarrhea

Heat Rash (Prickly Heat) And Babies

Newborn Skin Rashes: Erythema Toxicum

Safety: Household: Making Your House Safe For Exploration

School Issues: Starting School or Preschool

Sex & Sexuality: Concerns about a Child's Sexual Orientation

Gender Differences: How They Arise

Masturbation: Infancy through Preschool Age

Questions about Homosexuality

Talking with Your Children about Sex

Sexuality: Concerns about a Child's Sexual Orientation

Gender Differences: How They Arise

Masturbation: Infancy through Preschool Age

Questions about Homosexuality

Talking with Your Children about Sex

Siblings: Can You Treat Siblings Equally?

From Regression to Growing Up

Helping Your Older Child Become Helpful

How to Handle Different Kinds of Jealousy

Newborn's First Days at Home

Preparing Your Firstborn for the New Baby

Reducing Sibling Rivalry

Sibling Quarrels

What's Behind Sibling Jealousy?

Single Parents: Single Parents

Single Parents - 2

The Father as Single Parent

Sleep Concepts: Co-sleeping

Sleep: Why and How Much?

Sleep: Specific Problems: Bedtime Resistance

Bedtime Resistance: Why It's Hard to Handle

Night Terrors

Resistance to Going to Bed

Sleep Refusal and Vomiting

Sleepwalking

Spock on Nightmares

Waking in the Night

Spoiling: Can An Infant Be Spoiled?

Spoiling: After 6 Months

Spoiling: How To Unspoil?

Spoiling: Why We Do It

Stealing and Lying: School-age Children Who Occasionally Lie

What Stealing Means

What To Do For The Child Who Steals

Stepparenting: General Principles of Stepparenting

Stepfamilies

Stepfamily Stress: Why?

Symptoms & Conditions: Heat Rash (Prickly Heat) And Babies

Tantrums: Breath-Holding Spells

Tantrums At Preschool Age: What To Do

Tantrums In Preschool Children: Why?

Tantrums In Toddlers

Television: Television's Impact on Your Child

Thumb-Sucking: Negative Effects of Thumb-Sucking

Thumb-Sucking: Getting Your Child To Stop

Thumb-Sucking: When to Be Concerned?

Thumb-sucking In Bottle-fed Babies

Thumb-sucking In Breast-fed Babies

Why Children Suck Their Thumbs

Toilet Training: More Than An End To Diapers

When Is Your Child Ready for Toilet Training?

When YOU Are Ready for Toilet Training

When Your Child Is NOT Ready for Toilet Training

Toys and Play: Playing with Your Infant

The Use of Playpens

Play Is the Work of Children - 04/30/01

Seeing Play through Your Child's Eyes - 04/30/01

Teaching Children How to Be Courteous - 04/30/01

Young Children, Possessions and Sharing - 04/30/01

Favorite Toys in Early Childhood - 04/19/01

Take a Cheerful Approach to Cleanup Time - 04/19/01

Violence: How to Raise Nonviolent Children

The Challenge of Raising Nonviolent Children

Whining: Whining: What To Do

Whining: Why Some Parents Tolerate It

Whining: Why?

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