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

On 2005/02/26, at 21:32, John Wager wrote:

> 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.
>


My experience has been similar. I, too, have a daughter and her 
upbringing was very much along "nurturant parent" lines. She, too, is a 
very persuasive person who never had to fear punishment for trying to 
give a good reason for something.

She was also, however, exposed to Japanese education in kindergarten 
and elementary school, which has something to do with her current 
career as an (Annapolis, '98) Navy helicopter pilot. She clearly 
prefers being eccentric in relation to an established structure to 
being in wholly unstructured situations.

I will never forget what she said when it came time to choose between 
the Academy or Duke: "If I go to Annapolis, I will know who I am. If I 
go to Duke, I will be one of thousands of people who don't know who 
they are."


John L. McCreery
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