Doctor Spock said his work was an effort to help parents trust their own natural abilities in caring for their children.

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Doctor Spock's book did not receive much notice from the media when it was published in nineteen forty- six.

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More than fifty million copies of Doctor Spock's "Baby and Child Care" book have been sold since it was published.

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They won the gold medal. Benjamin Spock worked at a camp for disabled children for three summers during his years at Yale.

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Doctor Spock based much of his advice on the research and findings of the famous Austrian psychoanalyst,Sigmund Freud.

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Doctor Spock began working as a pediatrician, treating babies and children in New York City in nineteen thirty-three.

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Doctor Spock considered his mother,Mildred Spock, to be the major influence on his personal and professional life.

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In nineteen seventy-two, Doctor Spock decided to seek election as president of the United States.

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A leading American religious thinker of that time called Doctor Spock "the father of permissiveness."

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Doctor Spock said he did not want to just tell a parent what to do.

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It shows James T.Kirk,Spock and Leonard "Bones" McCoy as young men training to become officers.

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For example, Doctor Spock dismissed the popular idea of exactly timed feedings for babies.

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Jane Spock helped her husband produce the first version of "Baby and Child Care."

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Doctor Spock received about seventy-five thousand votes in the election that Richard Nixon won.

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He was the first of six children. The Spock family lived in New Haven,Connecticut.

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Benjamin Spock had married Jane Cheney during his second year in medical school.

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Today we tell about the world's most famous doctor for children, Benjamin Spock.

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Doctor Spock began receiving many letters of thanks from mothers around the country.

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Finally,it was cancelled. However,the legal battle cost Doctor Spock a lot of money.

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Doctor Spock also took part in demonstrations to protest the Vietnam War.

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Benjamin Spock died in nineteen ninety-eight at the age of ninety-four.

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Doctor Spock's book discusses the mental and emotional development of children.

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For years,Jane Spock drank too much alcohol and suffered from depression.

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Doctor Spock said babies should be fed when they are hungry.

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