[lit-ideas] Re: Back to parenting and politics

Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx wrote:

> How do you parent?  Do you think his ideas of political affiliation  has 
>anything to do with parenting styles?  I am very curious about this,  
>actually...  
>

I'm a Democrat who momentarily thought about moving to Ireland after the 
election, but who decided that the "unzipping" of the "left" from the 
"right" in this country was a problem from which I should not try to 
escape.  I have a daughter who's now 19, and she is more liberal than I 
am.  She was raised to question everything, and rewarded for being able 
to give a good reasons for her views.  Her mother, from whom I am now 
divorced (part of the "unzipping" of left and right?), was critical of 
this approach, wanting both of us to be more authoritarian.  Our 
daughter turned out to be a very persuasive person, ready to argue for 
anything she was trying to talk us into, and she never feared being 
punished for trying to give a good reason for something.  So in our 
case, what Lakoff says DOES fit.


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