“I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.” ThinkingChildrenImportantSeemsSportsParentSucceedHarderOur ChildrenYour ChildrenEnd TimesSpend Time Author:Dan Marino
“When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.” NeedsChildrenRememberSportsInvolvedOur ChildrenCaringYour Children Author:Frank Shorter
“Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.” WellsChildrenPlayTodayTurnsSportsRoomsToo MuchTelevisionFootballWalkingExerciseOur ChildrenSeatsClimbingTurn-onStadiumsClimbing Up Author:John F. Kennedy
“Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find "good" rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.” NeedsGivingFeelsChildrenRealReasonUseYoungSportsParentEconomicTeachingClothesPressureOur ChildrenCrowdsContemporaryDesignerInstructionImpressDressingsYoung ChildrenSurplusPeer PressureDesigner Clothes Book:Miseducation: preschoolers at risk Source: Miseducation: preschoolers at risk
“People don't realize how much the food industry has infiltrated all aspects of our children's lived experience, including their experience at school. There are sponsored curricula by food companies, they're also in our schools with logos sponsoring sports teams.” PeopleChildrenSchoolSportsRealizingCompanyTeamIndustryAspectOur ChildrenIncludingLogosSports TeamFood Industry Author:Anna Lappe
“Every day as a kid, I went to the boxing gym. I knew boxing before I knew anything else. And I was once told if you show your child how to do something and you constantly push them, then eventually they'll become masters. They'll become a master of their craft. So that's probably what happened with me and the sport of boxing.” IfsChildrenShowsKidsSportsHappenedMastersOur ChildrenCraftsYour ChildrenBoxingGym Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.