1. Dr. Benjamin Spock
By Karissa doyle

2. America’s Baby Doctor Who is he? Martin Luther King Jr. Lyndon Johnson
John F. Kennedy
1924 Olympics
Lyndon Johnson
(Vice) President
Vietnam War
Yale
America’s Baby Doctor

3. Mildred Stoughton Decorative Family History
Mildred (Fifth of six children)
Father- alcoholic, left for long periods of time, brought his mistress to the amusement park with Mildred(14) and left her there
Big influence
Mother- left father, beat children and locked them in closets, sometimes for days

4. Benjamin Ives Spock Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903)
Lawyer from Yale
Mother never visited his family
Married in 1900
Cold Spring Street, New Haven, CT
Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903)

5. Family Siblings: Hiddy, Betty, Anne, Bobby, Sally
“When he was little, he was too much in a dream to know there was any difference between girls and boys of any kind”
Hiddy = Spunky
Ben = Never stood up to his mom
Mother’s beliefs

6. Dr. Emmett Holt Bananas, cherries, berries Stale bread
Regular Feeding- 1st week of life
Rocking- “useless and injurious habit”
Crying=Exercise
Kissing- only on the forehead and cheek, if necessary
Potty training- 2 months, same time

7. Childhood Ben Man of the House “You must have fresh air”
Fresh Aired School
7 years old
Father
“Grave but Just” towards sons
“Cozy” towards daughters
Mother’s Favorite Child

8. Education Hamden Hall (12) Mr. Babcock Baseball Dancing
Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts (16)
John Hancock, Paul Revere, Lees, Washingtons, Quinceys, Lowells
“We Spock children never got homesick”
High Jump 5’6”

9. Yale- 1st year
“When you come back to New Haven to go to Yale next fall, you should live at home to try to recover your ideals”
1921
Roommates (2nd Half)
Couch
Car
“Why didn’t I die right on the spot? It would have been simpler than telling my father”
A gentleman’s C
English professor, architect, physician

10. Rowing “Why don’t you go out for a man’s sport?” Ed Leader
June 1923 JV Yale vs. Harvard
“Crew is more efficient than Gasoline Engine”
4 liters oxygen/minute
“as high a figure as has ever been measured on a man”
“As I worked up in crew I worked out of my depression. My self- image was changing.”
June 13th Philadelphia 6 minutes 9 sec

11. “The best individual performer is B. M
“The best individual performer is B. M. Spock…in all the races which were rowed by Yale in 1924, he passed the stroke down his side of the shell with such smoothness and accuracy that he kept all forward of him in line”

12. 1924 Olympics
Paris

13. Jane Cheney Cinnie Cheney’s older sister 17 Proposal
“No, I’m very fond of you”
“There’s not a single man that could possibly be as interesting as any woman”
“Jane was the first person who took me seriously”
Poor self-image
June 25, 1927

14. Married Life Colombia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York City
Graduates 1929
Jane
Prohibition
“Jane Cheney Spock drew crowds and astonished everyone who knew her by the power with which she did it”
Dr. Draper- research assistant-psychoanalysis
Macy’s

15. 1920’s-30’s Began studying Freud Peter Spock dies Ben’s father dies
Practice Medicine
1 year internship with pediatrics in New York Child Nursery and Hospital 1931
Psychiatry Internship 1932

16. Opened up own pediatric clinic Patients can call anytime
Caroline B. Zachry
“Undisguised Freudian Concepts”
“developing an individual conscience” = superego
Michael Spock, born 1933
Jane’s mother dies
Jane’s allowance
Opened up own pediatric clinic
Patients can call anytime
Work over Home life
Didn’t like asking for money

17. Writing the book Jane 507 sections Freud
“I wasn’t particularly trying to hide Freudian origins, but I was aware that I would lose my audience if I tried to drag in Freud too much.”

18. Key parts of the book
“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do”
Show affection
Father’s role
No strict schedule
Discipline
Fresh air

19. Fame in the 1940’s-50’s World War II 1944 John Spock April 20, 1944
First “Spock Baby”
Teaching
750,000 copies 1947
Minnesota
$.01 for every book sold
1 out of 5
Over a dozen languages
Permissive
Taught preventative Psychiatry

20. Western Reserve
John F. Kennedy 1960
1962 stands against nuclear testing
“It made me realize there wouldn’t be peace or disarmament unless people demanded it. My conscience told me I had to do something.”
SANE
National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy

21. Merv Griffin Show 1966
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22. The War at Home Jane- Skin Cancer Addiction
“emotional center for Spock family, the parent most able to express love and affection to their two sons.”
Mike
“doesn’t always listen to the nuance of what you’re saying. It may be just a piece of what you said, but he will fasten on it and it becomes a fixed idea.”
“Ben’s comments were not terribly subtle or thoughtful.”
His mother and father’s parenting skills…”it is very deeply ingrained in him.”

23. Peace Movement
"It isn't enough to bring up children happy and secure, you need to provide a decent world for them.”
“I didn’t raise up an entire generation just to send them off to war.”
Grandfather
Lyndon B. Johnson
Vietnam War

26. 1970’s
“His greatest ability is to rethink these things and to change.”
“Ben is very hard to get to know, I think.”- Berry Brazelton
“So, as kids, we were kind of angry at being used as sort of puppets.”- grandkids
“Well, I’m just back of him and don’t object to many things he wants to do, and make life as comfortable for him as possible.”- Jane
“Ben loved the idea that he was forever youthful.”

27. On the rocks
“I suspect that Ben’s sudden fame and his love of it- because he does love it-was very hard on her. I think it took him away from her. And she probably did resort to alcoholism as a result of that.”-Berry Brazelton
“I think it was typical of Ben’s absorption in one thing and complete ignoring of very drastic situations around him.”- Hiddy
Divorced after 48 years

28. Mary Morgan
Spaghetti

29. Benjamin Spock dies March 15, 1998

30. Discussion Questions
Why were people so much more willing to accept Spock than Freud?
What do you think parenting would be like today without Spock's book?
Spock had a lot of parenting advice, but why didn’t he follow it?

31. Maier, Thomas. “Dr. Spock An American Life. ” 1998
Maier, Thomas. “Dr. Spock An American Life.” Harcort Brace and Company.