Now I'll have to find some of this, so I can see what she's up to.
I get very cranked at many depictions of parents in popular culture. Especially when you think that as a culture we don't really live in big, multi-generational groups now, so that we have very few examples of parenting in front of us as we struggle to figure out what we are like as parents (usually some variation on "not what my parents were") more and more people turn to the media for examples, however incomplete, of what the parent/child dynamic should be. I cannot tell you how many times I heard people refer to "Michael and Hope vs Elliot and Nancy" styles when Iz was young -- ack! I've never seen Modern Family, but I'm sure I've seen copies of those parenting styles reflected in my community as I see young parents...
Hadn't heard "carguement" before (from the wiki article) -- very succinct.
Just finished the story you pointed me to -- I think one of the troubles I have with fan fiction is that so much of it is written by very young people. I would be surprised if the person who wrote that story was a parent.
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Now I'll have to find some of this, so I can see what she's up to.
I get very cranked at many depictions of parents in popular culture. Especially when you think that as a culture we don't really live in big, multi-generational groups now, so that we have very few examples of parenting in front of us as we struggle to figure out what we are like as parents (usually some variation on "not what my parents were") more and more people turn to the media for examples, however incomplete, of what the parent/child dynamic should be. I cannot tell you how many times I heard people refer to "Michael and Hope vs Elliot and Nancy" styles when Iz was young -- ack! I've never seen Modern Family, but I'm sure I've seen copies of those parenting styles reflected in my community as I see young parents...
Hadn't heard "carguement" before (from the wiki article) -- very succinct.
Just finished the story you pointed me to -- I think one of the troubles I have with fan fiction is that so much of it is written by very young people. I would be surprised if the person who wrote that story was a parent.