#rents

I am far from a perfect dad. And I always will be. But I’m a damn good dad, and my son will always feel bigger than anything life can throw at him. Why? Because I get it. I get the power a dad has in a child’s life, and in a child’s level of self-belief. I get that everything I ever do and ever say to my son will be absorbed, for good or for bad. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#called #cared #children #day #did

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#grown-up #i #liking #parents #peaceful

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#alive #became #brilliant #fed #great

I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance. ↗

— Geena Davis

#action #after #compliance #find #i

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it. ↗

— Bonnie Blair

#always #i #liked #me #parents

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me. ↗

— Lance Bass

#favorite #favorite things #grew #i #i love

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies. ↗

— Lance Bass

#care #dream #family #give #give me

I'm the only gay person my parents know. ↗

— Lance Bass

#i #know #only #parents #person

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#attempt #because #cultural #culture #dna