Show Spock Backs Off The latest revision of Dr Benjamin Spock's Spooks Baby and Child Care probably the most famous child care book of the century is a bit less permissive permissive permissive sive in tone than the last edition And according to reviewers reviewers reviewers re re- re- re viewers each revision is a bit less permissive IT IS GOOD to know that in times when so many of the babies of twenty years ago have grown up into spoiled darlings because mommie couldn't say no or and-or because of the dunce image and lack of respect for the American father that the permissive philosophy in rearing children is finally being revised back toward traditional values and concepts WHEN WilEN WE SEE what is happening around us at college campuses on the streets in inthe inthe inthe the sphere of drug addiction etc the cost of this twenty- twenty year jag is apparent The lesson is clear we should say no to junior he should be taught to conform generally speaking to be polite and he should have regular chores and responsibilities Its It's old but good stuff |