EH 432/530: Rhetorics of Parenthood: Parenting Advice

For your text, you will probably want to find something popular. The best place to find popular articles in Reader's Guide (full text and retrospective).

You can search them both at once if you're not sure what period you want your advice from.

1. Select one of them, either Reader's Guide Full Text (1983-present) or Reader's Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)
2. Above the search box, select "Choose Databases"
   
3. In the list of databases, select both (and any other databases you might want to search
   
4. Select "OK"
   

Now you can search both at the same time.

At this point, you can search for your terms. Use AND to combine terms and OR for other terms.

child rearing AND (food OR diet)
               (breast feeding OR breastfeeding) AND advice

Some parenting advice books are:

• Altalib, Hisham. Parent-Child Relations: A Guide to Raising Children (2013)
• Atlas, Stephen L. The Parents without Partners Sourcebook (1984) HQ759.915 .A84 1984
• Campbell, Ross. How to Really Love your Teenager (1981)  HQ755.83 .C35 1982
• Dodson, Fitzhugh. How to Parent (1970)  HQ769 .D59 1971
• Gadsden, Vivian L. (ed). Parenting Matters: Supporting Parents of Children Ages 0-8 (2016).
• Jacobson, Tamar. Everyone Needs Attention: Helping Young Children Thrive (2018)
• Lutz, Ericka. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Stepparenting (1998)
• Perkins, Mary. Beginning at Home: The Challenge of Christian Parenthood (1955)  Annex BV4526.2 P47 1955X
• Read, Mary L. The Mothercraft Manual (1916) Annex HQ759 .R4
• Rinn, Roger C. Positive Parenting (1976)  BF721 .R55 1976x
• Shannon, Thomas W., et al. Personal Help for Parents: Vital Knowledge for Parents, Including a Talk to Fathers and a Talk to to Mothers about the Responsibilities of Parenthood and a Specific and Comprehensive Guide for the Instruction of Children in the Delicate Matters of Sex (1918) Limited Circulation HQ57 .S64 1918x
• Spock, Benjamin. A Baby’s First Year (1955)  LHL* WS 113 SP61b 1955
• Spock, Benjamin. Caring for Your Disabled Child (1965). HQ784.H3 S6
• Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946)  RJ61 .S76
• Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1957)  LHL WS 113 SP61c 1957
• Spock, Benjamin. Raising Children in a Difficult Time: A Philosophy of Parental Leadership and High Ideals (1974)  HQ769 .S683 1974
• Spock, Benjamin. Problems of Parents (1962)  Annex HQ769 .S68 1962

Any books in Lister Hill Library (LHL) can be delivered to Sterne Library through the "Request" button in the item record.

Some questions to ask are:

• When and where was the advice published, distributed, or posted?
• What was going on in the world, in the country, and even in the local context at the time?
• Where the advice was published, distributed, or posted (in this case, “where” as in, what medium/publication)?
• Who is the publication’s readership?
• Who is the author of the advice?
• What are their credentials?
• What are they known for?
• What is their reputation?
• Are there any organizations behind the advice?

History of parenting:

• Bel Geddes, Joan. Small World: A History of Baby Care from the Stone Age to the Spock Age (1964)  RJ 37.B4
• King, Charles. Children's Health in America: A History. LHL* WA 11 AA1 K58c 1993
• "Parenting Styles" from the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
• Parenting, The Family, and Childcare from the series American Decades
  • 1900-1909
  • 1910-1919
  • 1920-1929
  • 1930-1939
  • 1940-1949
  • 1950-1959
  • 1960-1969
  • 1970-1979
  • 1980-1989
  • 1990-1999
  • 2000-2009
• Rankin, Jane L. Parenting Experts: Their Advice, the Research, and Getting it Right (2005). HQ755.8 .R365 2005

*Any books in Lister Hill Library (LHL) can be delivered to Sterne Library through the "Request" button in the item record.

Publication information:

• A History of American Magazines (5 vols). PN4877 .M68 1938
• The Magazine in America, 1741-1990. PN4832 .T43 1991
• Magazines in the Twentieth Century. PN4877 .P4 1964

American and World History: