Research shows that parents are most effective in setting limits when they follow up right away, giving consequences when rules are broken and offering encouragement when rules are followed. Youth are more likely to follow rules if they know parents are checking up on them and will enforce the consequences consistently.
GOP stands for Grand Old Party and is often used interchangeably with the word Republican. The acronym dates back to the 1870s, about the same time the party picked up its elephant logo. GOP. The name Republican dates back to 1792 and the supporters of Thomas Jefferson.
Stalwarts of both Republican and Democratic party campaigns would, of course, tell you that Get Out and Push is the proper attitude when it comes to motivating voters. So there's no Republican monopoly on that strain of GOP. As for the elephant, its status as party symbol appears to be safe. It dates back to a cartoon by legendary political cartoonist Thomas Nast, who in an 1874 issue of Harper's Weekly, depicted the Democrats as a donkey trying to scare a Republican elephant. Win or lose, both symbols have endured. Copyright 2002 CBS.