Dr. Spock’s Baby And Child Care is a useful book for parents to better their parenting skills. While offering plenty of updated tips on child rearing, the book teaches parents to trust themselves and to go by their instincts while parenting. Summary Of The Book Since the publication of the first edition of the book in 1946, Dr. Spock’s Baby And Child Care has been used as an expert guidance book on perfect parenting. Over these years, the book has grown to become the most reassuring, comprehensive, and trusted text on childcare. While the book has retained certain basic guiding principles of childcare such as caring for a newborn and caring for children during mishaps, minor injuries, and illnesses. It has also been updated, to keep up with the times. The 9th Edition of Dr. Spock’s Baby And Child Care covers some very relevant topics such as the latest immunizations and medical opinions, child obesity, learning and development of brain during childhood, diverse cultures, non-traditional family structures, childhood disorders such as ADHD and autism, the effect of media, family stress vis-à-vis children, and the effect of environment. In addition, the book contains a glossary that lists out some common medicines that can be administered to kids. This book also provides a resource guide that is a compilation of some useful online sources for baby and childcare information. In providing some practical tips for first-time parents, Dr. Spock’s Baby & Child Care is a book for all parents to take better care of their children. For its wealth of practical wisdom, Dr. Spock’s Baby And Child Care’s various editions have sold more than 50 million copies, and are regarded as a classic and a bestseller. The book has also been translated to 39 languages. About The Authors Dr. Benjamin Spock was a pediatrician and a bestselling author from America. Dr. Spock’s publications include A Baby’s First Year, Feeding Your Baby And Child, Caring For Your Disabled Child, and The Common Sense Book Of Baby And Child Care. Born in Connecticut, Dr. Spock graduated from Yale School of Medicine and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in 1929. Soon after he began writing books on baby and child care with help from his first wife, Jane Cheney Spock, a civil liberties advocate. As a pediatrician, Dr. Spock was the first to research psychoanalysis as a means to understanding the needs of children and the dynamics of a family. Dr. Spock advocated flexible parenting, and encouraged parents to go by their instincts while parenting. Robert Needlman is a pediatrician, a writer, and the co-author of later editions of Dr. Spock’s Baby And Childcare. Dr. Needlman is a pediatrician working at MetroHealth Medical Center, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Needleman has also worked at the Boston City Hospital. He received an undergraduate in English literature from Yale University, and has written for the magazine Parent and Child, as well as for the website Yahoo!. He also helped in starting a non-profit organization, Reach Out and Read, which aims at promoting the importance of reading loudly to children. He has also been the principal author of www.drspock.com.
