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The hosts referenced Dr. Benjamin Spock's 1946 book *The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child* as an early influence on the freerange parenting philosophy.
It's funny you say that that sounds kind of 50s because this whole idea of like free-range kids is kind of based on that philosophy of Dr. Spock, who was like one of the first experts, one of the firs...
— Episode: Selects: How Free Range Parenting Works
Episode: Selects: How Free Range Parenting Works
The hosts referenced Dr. Benjamin Spock's 1946 book *The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child* as an early influence on the freerange parenting philosophy.
It's funny you say that that sounds kind of 50s because this whole idea of like free-range kids is kind of based on that philosophy of Dr. Spock, who was like one of the first experts, one of the first child experts that America ever really paid attention to. And he wrote a book in 1946 called The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child.