“We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family.” YearsTwoKidsAgeGamesSportsParentTalkingBoysStupidYouthAdventureDaughterEightDrivingMy DaughterHockeyFourteenTrophiesIdioticGood RelationshipYouth SportsClose Family Author:Jeff Daniels
“My little boy loves mambo, and my daughter, besides Justin Bieber, likes bachata - in our house, we're always singing.” LittlesHouseBoysSingingDaughterLikesMy DaughterLittle BoysJustinBachata Author:Thalia
“I think my daughter actually influences my style more than having boys. I tend to dress more masculine with pants or shorts or flat boots, and she makes me want to dress more stylish, more girly.” ThinkingWantBoysInfluenceStyleDaughterDressesFlatsMy DaughterPantsBootsMasculineShortsGirlyStylish Author:Kourtney Kardashian
“In some cultures they don't name their babies right away. They wait until they see how the child develops. Like in Dances with Wolves. Unfortunately, our kids' names would be less romantic and poetic. "This is my oldest boy, Falls off His Tricycle, his friend, Dribbles His Juice, and my beautiful daughter, Allergic to Nuts.” ChildrenWould BeKidsBeautifulFallCultureNamesWaitingBoysBabyDaughterPoeticNutsJuiceAllergicDribbleBeautiful DaughterTricycles Author:Paul Reiser
“I've just returned from my daughter's Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl - and she was perfect. And, even better, she still considers boys to be made of kryptonite.” MadeStillsSchoolPerfectBoysDaughterGradesMy DaughterHuman ConditionHalloweenParadesGrades In SchoolKryptoniteSupergirl Author:Jonah Goldberg
“Im married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And Im like, Omigosh, now what am I going to do? She has my moms features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.” MenChildrenEyeWhiteBoysHairMomHusbandMarriedDaughterBlueMy MomFeaturesBrownMy DaughterMy HusbandWhite ManBlondeBlue EyesLightersMy BoysBrown EyesBlonde Hair Author:Karyn Parsons
“When I need a break from the boys, I go with my girlfriend to buy pretty little dresses for her daughter.” NeedsLittlesBoysBreakDaughterDressesGirlfriendMy Girlfriend Author:Kim Raver
“I'd never trade my old girl for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my daughter Toya for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my only boy for all the money in the world. I put my last name first!” WorldLifeFirstsLastsGirlNamesBoysDaughterTradeMy Daughter Author:Rick Ross
“Four of my children are daughters, and Ive watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.” MenChildrenLittlesBookDifferentGirlReadingDealsBoysFourDaughterFemaleMy ChildrenReading BooksHurdle Author:Robert K. Massie
“I don't know so much about my boys, but my girls, they all work with me. They know how to work. My daughters know it's not done till it's done, even if it's three or four in the morning. I don't want them to grow up with entitlement.” IfsKnowsWantDoneGirlThreeGrowsBoysMorningKnow HowGrowing UpFourDaughterMy DaughterEntitlementMy GirlMy Boys Author:Marie Osmond
“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.” ChildrenMadeHomeMotherGirlBlackClassBoysWifeMiddleCenturyFlowerClothesDaughterDressesWarmCirclesMiddle ClassItalianArtificialProtectedCoalNineteenth CenturyCottonLaundryMiningWelshMother And ChildBlack GirlMiddle Class FamilySweatshopsArtificial Flowers Author:Stephanie Coontz
“Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either. In public school she was voted most likely to conceive.” HumorSchoolFunnyHoursHalfBoysWatchesWifeMinutesStupidDaughterMy WifeMy DaughterPublic SchoolBargains Author:Rodney Dangerfield
“I'm a 20 year old white boy residing on the Eastside of Cleveland, OH, and I am loud and obnoxious troubled youth that spends weeknights pissing parents off by turning their daughter's room into a giant orgy-fest.” YearsParentWhiteRoomsBoysYouthDaughterLoudGiantsObnoxiousCleveland Author:Machine Gun Kelly
“When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn't it?” BlackWhitePoorBoysRichGrewProudMarriedGrew UpDaughterBlack BoyProud To Be An American Author:Molly Ivins
“Yes, we are our fathers' sons and daughters, but we are not their choices. For despite their absences we are still here. Still alive, still breathing, with the power to change this world, one little boy and girl at a time.” WorldLittlesStillsChoicesGirlFatherBoysAliveThis WorldSonDaughterAbsenceDespiteBreathingOur FatherLittle BoysFather SonBoy And GirlPower To ChangeSon And Daughter Author:Daniel Beaty
“You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to talk R-rated. I mean I've got three incredibly intelligent daughters, but when you get mad, you get mad and you talk like people talk. When a normal 17-year-old girl storms out of the house or 15-year-old boy is mad at his mom or dad, they're not talking the way people talk on TV. Unless it's cable.” PeopleIfsWayWantYearsMeanGirlThreeHouseTalkingBoysTvsMomDadNormalDaughterIntelligentMadStormCablesNot Talking Author:Bob Saget
“I remember when my daughter was twelve, suddenly a boy started hanging out in front of our house after school. It was this kid, Justin. My office at the time was right in the front, so I just looked out the window. I couldn't write. I couldn't concentrate. I was like, "What are you doing? What do you expect to achieve by standing in front of my house with my daughter inside?" I hated that kid so much.” WritingKidsSchoolRememberHouseBoysAchieveFrontsOfficeDaughterStandingWindowHatedMy DaughterHanging OutTwelveRemember WhenJustinAfter School Author:Cinco Paul
“Will I have to explain to my daughter that her brother is gonna make more money doing the exact same job because he's a man? If they both played sports since they were three years old, they both worked just as hard, but because he's a boy, they're gonna give him more money? Like, how am I gonna explain that to her? In tennis we've had great pioneers that paved the way - including Venus [Williams], who fought so hard for Wimbledon to pay women the same prize money they pay men, and Billie Jean King, who is one of the main reasons Title IX exists.” IfsMenWayGivingYearsHardReasonJobsThreeSportsPayBoysBrotherKingsDaughterIncludingTitlesTennisPrizeMy DaughterThree YearsMore MoneyPioneersVenusThree Year OldsWimbledonPrize Money Author:Serena Williams