But I don't know how often it was used, if ever. I can't ask my parents.

sons. Dr Spock also denounced Mike Dukakis when he (Dukakis) took the foster kids away from us and made an idiotic placement policy about foster kids with gays.

Good for him!

Live long and prosper.

It all worked out just fine, I might add.

My Dad declared Spock and Mad magazine communist!

I used Spock with my son...😋

too. I'm sure he got some stuff wrong, but I guess I turned out OK, anyhow...

ETA: I highly approved of his opposition to the war.

I thought he got that right! I was never my father...lol

I may have mis-read you...

have liked it, though. I was already out of the house by then, anyhow, and didn't serve in Vietnam, although I did enlist in the USAF in 1965.

My father was pure RWNJ right down to evolution...which surprised me because he was a smart guy...but we didn't agree on much of anything.

Everyone I graduated with, that didn't get a college deferment, (guys), went to Nam...

Many didn't return, As you know. My husband served in the Navy on the Hancock...


http://www.usshancockassociation.org/index.php

That bit didn't come to me until recently...like in the last 5 years! I would have loved to tell him but he's no longer here...

I am a socialist...maybe a democratic socialist...don't know yet but I'm a lefty liberal for sure. I'm betting you are too!

Just a common-sense guy, and I appreciated his advice. What I especially liked was his advice about getting babies to sleep through the night. Essentially: allow them to cry themselves to sleep for a night or two. They'll sleep through the night from then on. Worked like magic for my sons, who subsequently slept through the night.

to take the kid to the doctor and when to just wait and let it pass. She said that all worked just fine. I remember that part of the book, too.

and not, not really.

got it for a shower gift when I had my daughter. Read it, laughed at it and threw it away.

But, really preferred him to Captain Kirk.

Born in 1964, tail end of the Boomers

book. We did watch a lot of science fiction, read science fiction books and comics.

I think the only book my mom read about raising kids was Doctor Spock. I remember seeing it around the house all the time.

Discovered Star Trek in syndication when I was in my mid teens in the early 1970s. I was flabbergasted and delighted when for the first time in my life I saw someone who thought and acted like me - my Vulcan friend Mr. Spock. 35 years later I was dx'd Aspergers. What a surprise it wasn't.

My Mother took it to heart and it almost killed me. After two disfiguring surgeries in my first year of life, they sent me home to die. It was then somebody came up with the idea that I might be allergic to cows milk.

A career as a swimsuit model was definitely out.

and burned the book after I told her that Dr. Spock said she wasn't to hit me, she was to reason with me. She said I was just short of my third birthday. I think I must have been four and a half.

The hitting stopped when I was eight and I told her that no matter how much she hit me, she wasn't going to make me cry. She saw her former self being battered by my drunken grandfather and that did it. To her credit, she never hit me again.

So Dr. Spock might have been reduced to ashes, but he and I finally won.

At some point because I liked Mr Spock I read Dr Spock's book and was kind of pissed that there were no Star Trek mentions or nothing about aliens.

Actually I think I read it out of fear of not knowing crap about kids. So maybe in his book there was an address to return the child as it was born with no instruction tag.

Some of it made sense. But I am weird so ...

... tell the truth as best you know, and then run away from the shit-storms, if you must.

I'm a family failure. I've never been good at the running away from the shit-storms.

Was a mom who thought it very reasonable and helpful, although I didn't follow it to the letter!

completely.

My parents were both in the navy until I was almost 4 years old and I was raised by my maternal grandparents. My grandma was born in Switzerland, and spoke only German until she was 12. The last thing she would have done was consult a book to tell her how to raise kids.

Oddly enough, in 1963 when we were expecting our first child, she sent us a copy of "Baby & Child Care".

I was born in July of 1945, so I guess my mom winged it for a year.

It was one of the parenting books my parents passed on to me when they sold their house - along with Gesell Institute's Child Behavior, which seemed to be the one they followed more faithfully.

I guess she followed it regarding the medical stuff. As far as the behavior and discipline recommendations, not so much. She whopped me pretty good from time to time.

my oldest is 48 yrs old. I didn't know that it was still in print.

They never struck me as Dr. Spock people since both were raised on a farm.

I'm a very early boomer (1946), and I believe Dr. Spock's first book was published the year I was born. I doubt seriously if my mother read it or even knew about it. We lived on a farm in SW Ohio and both sets of grandparents were nearby for advice, if needed, although my mom and dad had already had two kids who were six and eight by the time I was born, so my mother had experience. She had also cared for numerous foster kids, so she wasn't a novice.

i remember the book and it was talked about all the time.

He was a welcome voice among all the mommy wars crap. After all, he said, "I really learned it all from mothers." He knew to trust women, and that they should trust themselves.

I was the last kid of 5, near the end of the boomers at 1961. Mom & Dad were both raised in a small town near El Paso. Both Mexican, no books, just the advise of their elders, parents & older siblings...and some of the Catholic Church (which I'm recovering from). But Dad was in the Army and we moved every 2 or 3 years so mostly it was Mom winging it.

And I was, by a quite intelligent lady who wouldn't stand for bad advice. Like to think I turned out pretty well..

own take (she was Maslow's pet at Brandeis). don't ask how her 4 children turned out. Materially successful (helps to inherit a bundle), anyway.

My mother raised us according to "mommie dearest." She turned out 1. a teaparty psycho, 2. a sociopathic dem now chumming with the GOP, and 3. me.

No it was not.