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The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

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History

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  • How he wrote it, how it resulted in such a conversational tone
  • Freudian influences

Summary

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"Trust yourself. You know more than you think."

Critical Reception

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  • criticized as advocating permissiveness; responses

Legacy

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  • first parenting book to succeed to such a degree
  • constantly updated, continued best-seller
  • first not-puritanically strict parenting book

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care has sold 50 million copies in 42 languages.(Times) It became one of the best-sellers of all time;(NYT) according to Salon, Baby and Child Care "remains the world's second-bestselling book, topped only by the Bible."

offered a sharp departure from the puritanical parental advice to that point The book has been continuously revised since the original publication; a seventh edition was released shortly after Spock's death in 1998.