Spock Talk: A Parenting Advice Podcast

Now that We're Spockologists

This is our “Behind the Podcast” episode in which we talk about history crushes, library lessons, social media, influencer culture, information source evaluation, and obsolete audio technology. Listeners! Leave a review and let us know how Spock Talk compares to other conversational podcasts. References * DeMott, Benjamin. “The Future of Children [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1974/04/the-future-of-children/661968/].” The Atlantic, April 1974.   * Kozlowska, Hanna. “Why Are We So Obsessed with Momfluencers? [https://www.elle.com/culture/books/a43277247/momfluencer-culture-sara-petersen-interview/]” Elle. 27 April 2023.   * Maier, Thomas. Dr. Spock: An American Life. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998. * Needleman, Robert and Benjamin Spock. Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care, 10th edition. Gallery Books, 2018.  * Pickert, Kate. “The Man Who Remade Motherhood.” Time Magazine, vol. 179, no. 20, pp. 32–39.  * Potter, Bob. “Benjamin Spock Discusses Baby and Child Care [https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1984/09/21/benjamin-spock-discusses-baby-and-child-care].” 21 September 1984. Minnesota Public Radio.  * "Recordings [https://library.syracuse.edu/digital/guides/s/spock_b.htm#series6].” Syracuse University. Accessed 22 June 2023.  * Richter, Robert. Ben Spock, Baby Doctor. Richter Productions, 1995. * Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1957. * Syfret, Wendy. "Are We All Secretly Co-sleeping [https://www.thecut.com/2023/04/co-sleeping-benefits-and-dangers.html]?" The Cut. 27 April 2023.  Keywords feelings, therapy, momfluencers, influencers, influencer culture, talk radio, call-in talk show, guy raz, how did this get made, podcast planning, parenting advice, parent book, publishing, conversational podcast, maintenance phase, patriarchy, feminism, feminists, sexism, twentieth century, 1900s, history podcast, mortimer zuckerman, american character, scarcity mentality, materialism, magazine publishing, fast company, privilege, vintage books, mothering, gentle parenting, koala parenting, baby food, archives, history research, library love, television, tv, talk show  Like Spock Talk? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spock-talk/id1687208160] or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com [spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com]. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too [http://www.myscreentimetoo.com]! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar [https://www.creativecookiejar.com/]. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler

Such an American Story: Lessons in Dr. Benjamin Spock-onomics, Internet History, and Venture Capital

We discuss Dr. Benjamin Spock’s personal finances and the venture capitalists that brought Baby and Child Care to the World Wide Web. References * Associated Press. “Dr. Spock’s Advice - 60 Years Later.” The Canadian Press. 25 Oct. 2004.  * Carvajal, Doreen. “Dr. Spock, Old and Infirm, Needs Money, Wife Says.” The New York Times. 28 Feb. 1998, p. A6. * “Digital Health and Human Rights Symposium [https://www.eventbrowse.com/city/new-york/event/digital-health-and-human-rights-symposium/].” Eventbrowse.  * Dinzeo, Maria. “Dr. Spock’s Widow Says Website Owes Her $84K.” Courthouse News. 28 July 2010.  * “The Dr. Spock Company Appoints New Members to Board of Directors.” Business Wire. 9 May 2001. * “The Dr. Spock Company Launches in Parenting Media Market.” Business Wire. 9 May 2001. * “The Dr. Spock Company and Pocket Books Re-launch Book Partnership With New Guides on Parenting.” PR Newswire. 10 July 2002. * “The Dr. Spock Company’s Parenting Television Series Reaches 35% of National Television Market.” PR Newswire. 10 July 2002. * Eagan, Margery. “Spock Shows Even Elderly Rich Are Ripe for Problems.” Boston Herald. 3 March 1998. * “Jane Cheney Spock [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jane-cheney-spock/id1634266386?i=1000578650429].” Significant Others: A History Podcast. 6 Sept. 2022.   * Maier, Thomas. Dr. Spock: An American Life. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998. * Massie, Robert K. “‘Not the Dr. Spock!’” Saturday Evening Post, vol. 239, no. 10, May 1966, pp. 80–86. * Mochari, Ilan. “Putting Stock in Dr. Spock.” Inc., vol. 23, no. 16, Dec. 2001, pp. 40-42. * “Parents and Dr. Spock; 4; Fathers and Children [http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-47rn8ttf].” 1955-00-00. Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 13, 2023.  * Parker-Pope, Tara. “Two Pediatrician Moms Offer Baby Advice.” The New York Times. 12 November 2010.  * Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1957. * ---. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. * Strahler, Steven R. “Minority-Run Venture Capital Firm Replaces Boss; Investors Complained of Poor Returns.” Crain’s Chicago Business, vol. 27, no. 24, 14 June 2004, p. 4.  Keywords depression, 1930s, sailboat, sailing, wealth, wealthy, portfolio, personal finances, academic career, book royalties, bestseller, generational wealth, income gap, privilege, scholarly sources, peer review, pop culture, mayo clinic, endorsement, university of pittsburgh, faculty, popular media, tv doctor, salary, ladies home journal, pitt medical school, patient care, bedside manner, home health care, goop, elder care, macrobiotic diet, douglas lee, john buckley, menlo park, entrepreneurs, venture capital, vc fund, american online, twentieth century history, history podcast, pediatrician, pediatrics, celebrity, mass communication Like Spock Talk? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spock-talk/id1687208160] or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com [spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com]. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too [http://www.myscreentimetoo.com]! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar [https://www.creativecookiejar.com/]. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler

Spock, Oprah; Oprah, Spock: Celebrity Culture in the 20th Century

We explore Spock in the spotlight. Did he have an irresistible, outsized personality? Or was he attention-seeking and fame-hungry? Public domain archival audio courtesy of the Iowa State University Archives. References * Bloom, Lynn. Doctor Spock: Biography of a Conservative Radical. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.: 1972. * Levey, Jane. “‘Spock, I Love Him.’” Colby Quarterly, v. 36, n. 4, December 2000, pp. 273-294. * Maier, Thomas. Dr. Spock: An American Life. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998. * “Malcolm Gladwell on Dr. Spock [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/malcolm-gladwell-on-dr-spock/id1634266386?i=1000578781800].” Significant Others: A History Podcast. 7 Sept. 2022.   * Massie, Robert K. “‘Not the Dr. Spock!’” Saturday Evening Post, vol. 239, no. 10, May 1966, pp. 80–86. * Needleman, Robert and Benjamin Spock. Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care, 10th edition. Gallery Books, 2018.  * Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1957. * ---. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. * Spock, Benjamin, M.D. and Mary Morgan. Spock on Spock: A Memoir of Growing Up with the Century. Pantheon Books, 1985. * Viorst, Judith. Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have To Give Up In Order To Grow. The Free Press, 2002. * “WOI-TV News Clips, 1921-2013, RS 5/6/9 [https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w96q1sp3q].” Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives. Accessed 17 Apr. 2023.  Keywords celebrities, celebrity culture, branding, marketing, influencer, influencers, tabloids, reality television, reality TV, celebrity doctor, pediatrician, oprah, oprah winfrey, dr. phil, dr. oz, wellness, woo-woo, fame, famous, publicity, public figure, household name, child rearing, spock babies, post-war, superpower, middleclass, child psychology, public perception, social media, father figure, spirituality, ballroom dance, ballroom dancing, stay-at-home parents, stay-at-home dad, ice dancing, revisionist history, malcolm gladwell, tv interview, reinvention, macrobiotics, goop, miso broth, diet, baby food, scraped meat  Like Spock Talk? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spock-talk/id1687208160] or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com [spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com]. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too [http://www.myscreentimetoo.com]! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar [https://www.creativecookiejar.com/]. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler

Spocked Or Spanked?

We explore Dr. Benjamin Spock’s political activism: Was he a hip protester? Or an anti-establishment pariah? Public domain archival audio courtesy of John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. References * Bates, Richard. “Democratic Babies? Francoise Dolto, Benjamin Spock and the Ideology of Post-ware Parenting Advice.” Journal of Political Ideologies vol. 24, no. 2, 2019, pp. 201-219. * Bloom, Lynn. Doctor Spock: Biography of a Conservative Radical. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1972. * “IFP:135-F-142-5M Jacqueline Kennedy Talks to Dr. Spock [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbUdlB0_rTc].” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. 13 Jul. 2010.   * Maier, Thomas. Dr. Spock: An American Life. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998. * Massie, Robert K. “‘Not the Dr. Spock!’” Saturday Evening Post, vol. 239, no. 10, May 1966, pp. 80–86. * Needleman, Robert and Benjamin Spock. Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care, 10th edition. Gallery Books, 2018.  * Potter, Bob. “Benjamin Spock Discusses Baby and Child Care.” 21 Sept. 1984. Minnesota Public Radio.  * Spock, Benjamin. “Active Pursuit of Peace 1968.” Benjamin Spock and Mary Morgan Papers, Box 481, Syracuse University. * Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1957. * ---. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. * ---. “March on Washington 1965.” Benjamin Spock and Mary Morgan Papers, Box 399, Syracuse University. * ---. “Manifesto 1968.” Benjamin Spock and Mary Morgan Papers, Box 399, Syracuse University. * Spock, Benjamin, M.D. and Mary Morgan. Spock on Spock: A Memoir of Growing Up with the Century. Pantheon Books, 1985. * “Spock Would End Candidacy if Rep. Chisholm Would Run.” The New York Times. 5 Dec. 1971.   * Thompson, Bill. “Benjamin Spock.” Now I’ve Heard Everything. 16 August 2021.   Politics, political ideology, political activism, republicans, democrats, conservatives, columbia medical school, memoir, socialists, socialism, debate, political debate, liberals, progressives, new deal, depression, franklin roosevelt, political radicals, american labor party, prohibition, alcoholism, alcohol, speech, political speech, political endorsements, adlai stevenson, vice president, POTUS, presidential election, veep, nepo baby, pediatrician, pediatrics, white house, john f. Kennedy, jackie kennedy, jacqueline kennedy, political ad, campaign, political campaign, washington d.c., campaign promise, presidential candidate, fdr, lyndon b. Johnson, vietnam, vietnam war, lbj, rebellion, oedipal complex, cold war, nuclear arms, ussr, united soviet socialist republic, anti-nuclear, nukes, nuclear testing, nuclear weapons, nuclear winter, nuclear power, nuclear leak, nuclear power plant, radiation exposure, child development, imposter syndrome, civil rights, martin luther king jr., mlk jr, march on washington, allies, ally, anti-war, feminism, partisan politics, peace vigil, civil disobedience, indictment, indicted, boston five, boston 5, draft resisters, people’s party, activism, activists, syracuse university, archives, parent advice, parenting advice, foreign policy, united states foreign policy, democracy, world power, baby boomers, spock generation, joan didion, political language, coded language, economic superpower, household appliances  Like Spock Talk? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spock-talk/id1687208160] or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com [spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com]. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too [http://www.myscreentimetoo.com]! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar [https://www.creativecookiejar.com/]. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler

Spock's Women's Group: Sisters, Wives, and Daughters-in-law

We explore Dr. Benjamin Spock’s personal relationships with women: sisters, co-workers, dance partners, mentors, wives, and daughters-in-law. Spock recording used with permission from WNYC Archive Collections. Listeners! Let us know your favorite piece of parenting advice. Leave it in a review or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com [spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com]! References * Cooper, D. “Dr. Benjamin Spock [https://www.wnyc.org/story/dr-benjamin-spock/].” WNYC. 1 October 1973.  * Goddard, Joanna. “Motherhood Mondays: Sleeping in Denmark (This Made My Jaw Drop!) [https://cupofjo.com/2011/09/19/motherhood-mondays-sleeping-in-denmark-this-made-my-jaw-drop/].” Cup of Jo, 19 September 2011.  *  “Jane Cheney Spock.” Significant Others: A History Podcast [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jane-cheney-spock/id1634266386?i=1000578650429]. 6 Sept. 2022.   * Klemesrud, Judy. “The Spocks: Bittersweet. Recognition in a Revised Classic [https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/19/archives/the-spocks-bittersweet-recognition-in-a-revised-classic.html?searchResultPosition=1].” New York Times. 19 March 1976.       * Kochakian, Mary Jo. “Public vs. Private: Dr. Spock, Mr. Hyde [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/06/14/public-vs-private-dr-spock-mr-hyde/43beeb6e-dda2-44a4-a622-6a59bf580179/].” Washington Post, 14 June 1998.   * Maier, Thomas. Dr. Spock: An American Life. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998. * Massie, Robert K. “‘Not the Dr. Spock!’” Saturday Evening Post, vol. 239, no. 10, May 1966, pp. 80–86. * Needleman, Robert and Benjamin Spock. Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care, 10th edition. Gallery Books, 2018.  * Ryan, Jeff. “How Ben Spock Became Dr. Spock.” Contemporary Pediatrics, vol. 26, no. 11, November 2009, p. 88. * Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1957. * ---. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. * Spock, Benjamin, M.D. and Mary Morgan. Spock on Spock: A Memoir of Growing Up with the Century. Pantheon Books, 1985. * Whiting, Sam. “Sailing Through Life / Menlo Park Educator on Her 25 Years with Dr. Spock. [https://www.sfgate.com/magazine/article/Sailing-Through-Life-Menlo-Park-educator-on-her-2733505.php]” San Francisco Gate. 15 August 2004.  Keywords lingerie, shopping, anthroposophy, waldorf, childhood trauma, daughter-in-law, clothes, apparel, divorce, marriage, yoga retreat, family therapy, milltown, depression, schizophrenia, alcoholism, recovery, mental illness, toxic masculinity, sexism, history, women's liberation, feminism, feminists, typist, may december romance, age gap, fresh air, baby care, outdoor naps, mayo clinic, minnesota, western reserve, secretary, daycare, child care, babies, parents, parenting, parenting advice, pediatrician, celebrity doctor, influencer, publishing, baby book, sailing, wealth, income, personal finance, health care Like Spock Talk? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spock-talk/id1687208160] or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com [spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com]. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too [http://www.myscreentimetoo.com]! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar [https://www.creativecookiejar.com/]. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler