Supernanny is a Spinozist insofar as, like Spinoza, she takes it for granted that children are in a state of abjection

She was thinking of Spinoza's kind of striving, conatus.

Bertrand Russell called Leibniz's system "profound, coherent, largely Spinozistic, and amazingly logical."

as if at bottom there were only one art which expressed itself indifferently in one or the other of these languages, like the Spinozistic substance which is adequately reflected by each of its attributes