Spock Talk: A Parenting Advice Podcast

If you liked Spock Talk, you'll like Your Grandparents Did What? It's a comedy podcast about the history of parenting. Listen to the trailer now, then subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. The new season of Your Grandparents Did What? premiers on October 31! Like Spock Talk? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler

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 The Future of ChildrenWhy Are We So Obsessed with Momfluencers?Benjamin Spock Discusses Baby and Child CareRecordingsAre We All Secretly Co-sleeping 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 or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler

We discuss Dr. Benjamin Spock’s personal finances and the venture capitalists that brought Baby and Child Care to the World Wide Web. References Digital Health and Human Rights SymposiumJane Cheney SpockParents and Dr. Spock; 4; Fathers and Children 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 or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler

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 Malcolm Gladwell on Dr. SpockWOI-TV News Clips, 1921-2013, RS 5/6/9 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 or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler

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 IFP:135-F-142-5M Jacqueline Kennedy Talks to Dr. Spock 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 or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler

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! References Dr. Benjamin SpockMotherhood Mondays: Sleeping in Denmark (This Made My Jaw Drop!)Significant Others: A History PodcastThe Spocks: Bittersweet. Recognition in a Revised ClassicPublic vs. Private: Dr. Spock, Mr. HydeSailing Through Life / Menlo Park Educator on Her 25 Years with Dr. Spock. 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 or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler

We explore Dr. Benjamin Spock’s treatment of women in his books and magazine columns. Listeners! Let us know your favorite parenting advice book or website. Leave it in a review! Spock recordings used with permission from WNYC Archive Collections and Minnesota Public Radio. References Child Care or Child Neglect? Baby Farming in Late-nineteenth-century PhiladelphiaDr. Benjamin SpockRaising Children In a Difficult TimeBenjamin Spock Discusses Baby and Child Care Keywords Sexism, domestic labor, mom guilt, pronouns, gender roles, fathers, dads, mothers, moms, mommy, pediatrician, parent advice, feeding children, baby food, baby development, child development, baby milestones, patriarchy, spoiled children, helicopter parents, babytalk, husband, wife, marriage, mental load, co-parents, co-parent, baby blues, postpartum depression, self care, breastfeeding, formula feeding, baby formula, weaning, marxism, second wave feminism, working moms, working mothers, working parents, working dad, housework, betty friedan, gloria steinem, feminine mystique, gender equality, apology, apologies, child rearing, redbook, magazine publishing, caregiver, wages, capitalism, daycare, dual income, dual incomes, breadwinner, preschool, baby farm, twentieth century, resume gap, 1900s, history, american history, neuroses, neurotic, comics, comic strips, screen time Like Spock Talk? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler

As the first baby doctor to blend pediatrics with psychology, Dr. Benjamin Spock infused The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care with Freudian psychoanalytic theory. Spock recording used with permission from WNYC Archive Collections. References Keywords readability, writing style, pop psychology, popular psychology, freud, freudian, anna freud, sigmund freud, modernism, midcentury, feminism, feminists, mother advice, parenting advice, parent education, virginia woolf, to the lighthouse, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic theory, psychology, psychotherapy, cbt, talking cure, talk therapy, analyst, analysts, analyst couch, paternalism, carnegie libraries, carnegie library, philanthropy, pediatricians, pediatrics, pediatric psychology, psychiatry, psychiatric residency, pediatrics residency, sando rado, bertram lewin, margaret mead, caroline zachry, laura spelman rockefeller foundation, rockefeller foundation, parenting literature, jane spock, benjamin spock, syphilis, childhood, childhood memories, repression, envy, castration anxiety, thumb suckers, thumb sucking, oral stage, pacifiers, toilet training, potty training, on demand feeding, formula feeding, breast feeding, sexism, sexist, repressed memories, bottle feeding, formula scum Like Spock Talk? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler

What was Dr. Benjamin Spock’s role in the professionalization of the domestic sphere (i.e. the patriarchy’s long game)? Spock audio courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. References For Children Because We CareRobert NeedlmanRobert Needlman, M.D. Keywords Parenting books, parenting advice, attachment parenting, patriarchy, topple the patriarchy, industrialization, industrial age, urbanization, Barbara Ehrenreich, shiplap, baby mattress, crib mattress, pigs hair mattress, baby care, red cross babysitter, red cross certification, pediatrician, pediatrics, grandma, grandmothers, grandmother, grandmotherly, aunties, systemic racism, matriarchal Like Spock Talk? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler

Did a privileged upbringing, Yale legacy admission, and dapper fashion sense establish Dr. Benjamin Spock as a trustworthy authority on child rearing? Spock recording used with permission from WNYC Archive Collections. References Keywords Gentry, spock, spaak, outdoor school, new haven, new haven connecticut, connecticut, crew, rowing, crew team, yale grad, yale graduate, ivy league, ivy, rowing team, olympic, olympics paris, yale rowing, olympian, gold medal, olympic gold, olympics, olympic rowing, olympic crew, usa olympics, parenting influencer, skull and bones, skull + bones, legacy admission, white privilege, scroll and key, scroll + key, wolfs head, secret society, yale secret society, english major, yale undergrad, yale med, yale medical school, med school, medical school, medical school admission, ivy diploma, college diploma, college admission, yale gpa, louise farnam, lady doctor, nepo baby, columbia university, columbia medical school, columbia med, columbia medical school, new york, 1929, pediatrician, pediatrics, pediatrics practice, navy doctor, navy medicine, dapper, blue suit, blue striped suit, white coat, clotheshorse, fashion focused, fashion, vintage fashion, mens fashion, male fashion, book deal, baby book, parenting book, pocket books, baby clothes, baby and child care, fresh air Like Spock Talk? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler

Was Dr. Benjamin Spock’s bestseller The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care popular because early twentieth century parenting guides were awful and harsh? Spock recording used with permission from WNYC Archive Collections. References Keywords Baby doctor, celebrity doctor, celebrity M.D., pediatrics, pediatrician, pediatricians, baby expert, baby whisperer, attachment parenting, attachment parent, koala parenting, gentle parenting, gentle parent, elimination communication, potty training, toilet training, hospital birth, homebirth, home birth, infant feeding, baby led weaning, behaviorism, hygienists, history, history research, history pod, history podcast, pasteurization, louis pasteur, infant mortality, food safety, formula feeding, formula, baby formula, united states history, american history, U.S. history, housewife, tradwife, traditional wife, house work, mother love, baby food, toddlers, fresh air, Healthy kid, healthy kids, spoiled milk, summer complaint, scarlet fever, malaria Like Spock Talk? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler

Spock Talk is a new conversational podcast about the history of parenting advice. Over ten episodes, we'll cover the life and legacy of Dr. Benjamin Spock, exploring his predecessors, privilege, medical training, written works, activism, and personal finances, as we try to answer: just who gets to tell parents how to parent? Like Spock Talk? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar. Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler