People Are Still Talking about Not Spoiling the Baby — Really?

You cannot spoil a baby

1914 INFANT CARE Publication, U.S. Department of Labor Children’s Bureau

Seventy-five years after Dr. Spock wrote The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care and single-handedly overturned a century of Victorian strictures on motherhood, some well-meaning but misguided souls are still advising young mothers to be cruel to their babies.