Parenting vs Spockian - What's the difference?
parenting | spockian |
Process of raising and educating a child from birth until adulthood.
Related to, or characteristic of, and/or his parenting philosophy.
* 1960 , "
* 1988 , Nancy Pottishman Weiss, "
* 1990 , Philip Elliot Slater, The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point , Beacon Press (1990), ISBN 0-8070-4201-3,
Related to, or characteristic of, the character .
* 1988 , "
* 1989 , Joseph White and Aaron Wildavsky, The Deficit and the Public Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s , University of California Press (1989), ISBN 0-520-06533-6,
* 1989 , Howard Aiken, "
* 1997 , Alex Matthews, Satan's Silence: The Second Cassidy McCabe Mystery , Intrigue Press (1997), ISBN 1-890768-04-9,
* 2007 , John Harshaw, The Complete CD Guide to the Universe: Practical Astronomy , Springer-Verlog (2007), ISBN 978-0-387-46893-8,
* 2007 , John Sellars, Perfect From Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life , Simon & Schuster (2007), ISBN 978-0-7432-7708-2,
* 2009 , Paul Herr, Primal Management: Unraveling the Secrets of Human Nature to Drive High Performance , AMACOM (2009), ISBN 978-0-8144-1396-8,
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*:The president has been accused of being Spockian in his problem solving
As a noun parenting
is process of raising and educating a child from birth until adulthood.As a verb parenting
is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective Spockian is
related to, or characteristic of, Dr. Benjamin Spock and/or his parenting philosophy.parenting
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(en adjective)Now 'Dr. Spock' Goes to the White House, The New York Times , 1960 December 4:
- The Spockian influence on motherhood-at-large is, today, almost legendary.
Mother, the Invention of Necessity: Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care", in Growing Up in America: Children in Historical Perspective (ed. N. Ray Hiner and Joseph M. Hawes), University of Illinois Press (1988), ISBN 0-252-01218-6:
- The triumph of the Spockian dictum of a privatized child-rearing world, shorn of political concerns, may, in part, explain the vehemence with which Dr. Spock has been attacked for his own peace activities.
page 100:
- They seem to be more certain that desire can be gratified than that it can be aroused — a response that probably owes much to Spockian' child-rearing. In earlier times a mother responded to her child's needs when they were expressed powerfully enough to distract her from other cares and activities. ' Spockian mothers, however, often tried to anticipate the child's needs:
Leonard Nimoy takes a cue from Mr. Spock: As a director, he keeps his Vulcan cool", Chicago Sun-Times , 1988 November 6:
- "True," [Nimoy] said with Spockian crispness. "It wasn't expected. I worked hard at becoming a working actor. It took a long, long time to do that."
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- While we eschew the Spockian "mindlock" (recall "Star Trek") with the framers others so easily achieve, the Founding Fathers so fervently invoked remain practical politicians, leaders who lived on the fine line between principle and expedience.
Early Inventors", in Portraits in Silicon (ed. Robert Slater), The MIT Press (1989), ISBN 978-0262691314:
- And you can see from the Spockian ears and the raised eyebrows, he had a positive Mephistophelian look.
page 135:
- She bit into tough, stringy meat that had a pungent, wild taste to it. "Interesting," she commented, attempting a Spockian neutrality.
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- It soon dawned on me that observing the sky by constellation — which is a very popular option — was not, in the Spockian sense, "logical" to me as many rich parts of the sky spill over the artificial constellation boundaries people have assigned to the sky.
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- If there was nothing better to do, I'd often tool around doing a Spockian mind-meld with the music, rewinding certain parts to get them straight in my head
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- Most cognitive psychologists in the mideighties viewed the brain as a computer-like mechanism based on pure logic and rational thought. There was no room for emotions in their Spockian formulation.
Should the NFL signing window remain in the CFL's new CBA?", TSN.ca , 2010 January 15:
- When Warren Moon left the Edmonton Eskimos and continued his Hall of Fame career with the Houston Oilers in 1984, some NFL scouts raised a Spockian eyebrow and started to explore the north for other players that might be able to make the jump.
Obama Finally Leans into the Gulf Oil Spill", CBC News , 2010 May 28