HI Billy, On Mar 2, 2010, at 12:24 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Ernie: > If the two parties are mommy and daddy, suppose there was a > Radical Centrist party. What would be the appropriate metaphor ?
I think our friend Mark Satin nailed it pretty well with his (re)definition of "nurturing parentS" vs "strict daddy" and "indulgent mommy": George Lakoff, Don’t Think of an Elephant!: A Critique > Moreover, Lakoff’s frames are hardly scientifically drawn. The counterpart of > the strict father model is not nurturant parent. It’s what you could call the > “anything goes” model, from which millions of youth are suffering today. > > The nurturant parent model (and how’s about plural -- nurturant parents) is > the golden mean, with appropriate discipline and freedom both built in. Some > dare call it the radical middle model. > -- Ernie P.
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