Dr. Spock On Parenting Sensible, Reassuring Advice for Today&39s Parent [Paperback]

An essential guide for today's parents -- from the world-renowned pediatrician and author ofDr. Spock's Baby and Child Care.
In this classic text, Dr. Benjamin Spock addresses the changing of traditional family structure and the challenges contemporary parents face. From two-job families to single parenthood, this timely reference offers sound, reliable advice on today's difficult parenting issues, including:

• understanding the role of the modern father
• developing healthy eating habits
• adapting career demands to a baby's needs
• evaluating child care outside the home
• handling your child in public places
• dealing with sleeping problems
• teaching your child about strangers
• nurturing your child's potential
• talking to children about sex, disease, death,
• religion and God
• handling divorce and custody questions

Chapter One: Anxieties in Our Lives

CAN WE EASE OUR TENSIONS?

TO WORK OUTSIDE OR NOT

LATE PARENTING

CAN YOU RAISE SUPERKIDS?

ABDUCTORS AND MOLESTERS

Can We Ease Our Tensions?

I believe ours is the most stressful country in the world, though this doesn't need to be. We aren't more conscious of our distress because a majority of us are still financially more comfortable than the people of other countries, and this material wealth anesthetizes us.

Why are we so tense? To begin with, we've lost sources of security and comfort that our ancestors relied on up to a few generations ago. We aren't even aware of what we've lost.

Back when so much in the universe was considered mysterious and known only to God, a far greater number of us had a strong sense of having been created in his or her image and of being guided every hour of the day by God's concern. Today, the sciences have appeared to take over much of the authority that was formerly God's, yet they are too impersonal to serve as guides; worse, they have fragmented and demoted us intl¢