Dr. Spock On Parenting: Sensible, Reassuring Advice For Contemporary Parents

Now in a new trade paperback edition, Dr. Spock's groundbreaking classic looks to the future and addresses the challenges today's parents face.

An essential guide for today's parents -- from the world-renowned pediatrician and author of "Dr. 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 fatherdeveloping healthy eating habitsadapting career demands to a baby's needsevaluating child care outside the homehandling your child in public placesdealing with sleeping problemsteaching your child about strangersnurturing your child's potentialtalking to children about sex, disease, death, religion and Godhandling divorce and custody questions