[lit-ideas] Re: Back to parenting and politics
- From: John Wager <johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 06:32:33 -0600
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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