"nurturant" learning and playing experiences, such as reading with your child, and the facilities needed are free in most neighbourhoods.    From Wordnik.com.  [canada.com Top Stories] Reference

They're just as interested in babies and as nurturant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Slater: The World Doesn't Need Machismo -- Why Do We Keep Instilling It?] Reference

Organic nurturant parents versus hormone-eating strict daddies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinking of Jackasses] Reference

But Lakoff did none of us Leeburals any favors with his "nurturant family" frame.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Winger Attack: John Edwards Could Be Our "First Woman President"] Reference

How many women believe they are more nurturant, or more capable of nurturance, than men?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guilty pleasures. « A Bird’s Nest] Reference

They are nurturant and empathetic in some parts of their lives and authoritarian in others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glenn W. Smith: Seeing with Tucker Carlson's Eyes] Reference

With their instinctive nurturant tendencies, female psychologists may help to provide that image.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revival Sessions] Reference

To simplify, Dems are the "nurturant Mommy" party and Repubs are the "authoritarian Daddy" party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Rudy Leading GOP Rivals Among Conservatives, Evangelicals] Reference

And yet Grodzins concludes that antislavery activists were motivated by nurturant parent theology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Unitarian history at the Spiritual Progressives forum.] Reference

Liberals have a "nurturant parent" model of the family, where empathy and responsibility are valued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheney a Master of "Framing"] Reference

Repubs are "authoritarian father centered" thinking and Dems are "nurturant mother" centered thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maureen Dowd Devotes Whole Column To Edwards' Hair] Reference

The Big Bad Wolf doesn't recall his own warm upbringing in a nurturant den and then decide not to eat grandma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glenn W. Smith: The Dangerous Framing of Congress as an Inept Community] Reference

Conservatives do think of government as a strict-father parent, and liberals think of government as a nurturant parent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Hypotheses, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Second, he offers what I find to be a more helpful distinction than George Lakoff's "strict father/nurturant parent" contrast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Who's afraid of freedom and tolerance?] Reference

There are two systems of values and modes of thought -- call them progressive and conservative (or nurturant and strict, as I have).    From Wordnik.com.  [George Lakoff: No Center, No Centrists] Reference

Lakoff believes swing voters are people who subscribe to both strict father and nurturant parent models, depending on the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Whose Evangelicalism can broaden Christian politics?] Reference

There are two major modes of thought in American politics -- conservative and progressive, what I've called "strict" and "nurturant.".    From Wordnik.com.  [George Lakoff: The Mind and the Obama Magic] Reference

(It seems not to have occurred to lots of our readers that there are many Americans who don't want to be nurturant Earth mother types.).    From Wordnik.com.  [David Roberts: Introducing 'Climate Hawks'] Reference

He views "strict-father morality" as the basis of conservative politics and "nurturant-parent" morality as the basis of liberal politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard America, Soft America, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Later, of course, Howe took a very different approach and launched the Mother's Day of Peace perhaps reembracing the nurturant parent frame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Unitarian history at the Spiritual Progressives forum.] Reference

A main point to beware of with Lakoff is his talking about the nation as family metaphor, with two poles as strict father and nurturant parent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iowa Straw Poll-- Did Romney Spend over $1000 a vote to win it? Either Way This is a Loss for Republicans] Reference

This crucial distinction collapses every time pro-choice arguments flip-flop between the language of individual rights and that of nurturant femininity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feminism and Abortion] Reference

Two family models hold, a nurturant model that emphasizes social responsibility and empathy, and a strict father model that emphasizes authority and obedience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glenn W. Smith: Stubborn Media Frame Bush as "Firm"] Reference

There is the nurturant model, in which care and responsibility are central, and there is the strict father model, in which obedience and discipline are central.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glenn W. Smith: Seeing with Tucker Carlson's Eyes] Reference

"Militant" progressives commonly have strict means and nurtur-ant ends, while courtly, gentlemanly and ladylike conservatives may have nurturant means and strict ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Lakoff: Biconceptualism] Reference

According to Don't Think, Democrats should embrace the nurturant parent values of their most loyal supporters the same way Republicans have embraced strict fatherhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Whose Evangelicalism can broaden Christian politics?] Reference

Modern America is large and, yes, diverse enough that it's absolute folly to think some sort of progressive or nurturant world view can — or should — become majoritarian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinking of Jackasses] Reference

George Lakoff comes in and tells everyone that Democrats are nurturant parents and Republicans monsters.    From Wordnik.com.  [D-Day] Reference

Meanwhile, liberals 'conceptual system of the "nurturant parent" has as its highest value helping individuals who need help.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democratic Strategist] Reference

We might grow cultivating the aggressive, competitive side of our nature, and disdain or repress the nurturant, cooperative side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liz Strauss at Successful Blog] Reference

Most Republicans/conservatives favor a "strict father" family system, while most Democrats/progressives support a "nurturant parent" model.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Canon printer scanner unspeakable by a anginose cryometer is now the hinayana of ichthyosis for nurturant endgame, or to phasmida for a disjunct sterility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

In his book Don't Think of an Elephant, George Lakoff provides a metaphor for conservatives as the strict father figure, where as liberals are the nurturant parent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

Perhaps it’s the more nurturant Dem impulse, but our elected leaders’ psychology is weak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Profiles in “Courage”] Reference

To use another model from business, Lakoff’s “strict father/nurturant mother” is Theory X/Theory Y management.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Greetings From the Fever Swamp] Reference

51Within practical limits, residents of The Farm structured household labor to maximize women's exercise of their nurturant yin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83] Reference

We are the "nurturant parent," after all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hullabaloo] Reference

"Well, the progressive worldview is modeled on a nurturant parent family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liblogs.ca latest blog entries] Reference

"mommy" model, which I have explained at length before (http: / / sciencepolitics. blogspot.com / 2004 / 09 / nurturant-is-not-coddly. html.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference