Is Barack Obama secretly using modern parenting books for government leadership hints? Politico thinks so.
The evidence? For one, Senator Claire McCaskill's comment that the
Senate democrats decision not to strip Joe Lieberman of his
chairmanship was a
“direct result of the tone [Obama]
set...The old school was that you reward your friends and punish your
enemies...But it’s a new day, and there is no reward and punishment
going on.”
Politico likens this "tone" Alfie Kohn's parenting advice:
Alfie
Kohn, whose book “Unconditional Parenting” is subtitled “Moving from
Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason” approves.
Kohn says a
“working with” approach in the political realm is “essentially more
democratic” — particularly if it offers real choices, and not just the
illusion of them."
Maybe the Catholic Church needs to consider its own "fathering" style. For want of local recruits, the Church in the United States has a growing stable of priests from abroad:
"One of six diocesan priests now serving in the United States came from abroad,
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