He talked about how the popular model of the family is as a bubble or cocoon: the parents/caretakers/adults surround the kid and keep it safe from incursions from the outside world.
He suggested that instead, we might think of the family as a stream. The kid is a stream. The parent is a stream. Other, outside influences are also streams, maybe smaller streams, maybe less strong. But they all mix and separate and mix and the best thing you can do is be a strong, constant stream for your kid.
This is a paraphrase from memory, btw, and about seven months later :), so I may have mangled it a little.
Another way of looking at it is that the bubble model is static; the "stream" model is designed, I suspect, to reflect the movement of time.
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Date: 2007-01-06 03:27 am (UTC)He suggested that instead, we might think of the family as a stream. The kid is a stream. The parent is a stream. Other, outside influences are also streams, maybe smaller streams, maybe less strong. But they all mix and separate and mix and the best thing you can do is be a strong, constant stream for your kid.
This is a paraphrase from memory, btw, and about seven months later :), so I may have mangled it a little.
Another way of looking at it is that the bubble model is static; the "stream" model is designed, I suspect, to reflect the movement of time.