Monthly Archives: January 2014
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, kids. Behold! I am the Beholder of Legend!
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“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” ― Confucius
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In the movies, one of the markers of being a good dad is telling the kids about who’s beautiful. I have no data to back this claim, but I feel like I’ve seen it a lot in popular culture, which surely can’t be wrong. On TV, the good dad always tells his daughter how beautiful she is and/or tells the kids how beautiful their mother is.
I’ve never really done this with any regularity, and it’s nothing to do with how beautiful my family is because they’re all drop dead gorgeous. But, for whatever reason, it occurred to me recently that I should maybe think about this. And when I say it occurred to me, “for whatever reason”, what I mean is “for the simple reason that I worry about all the things all the time, for no reason.” Continue reading Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, kids. Behold! I am the Beholder of Legend!
Good Quote for January 21, 2014
The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.
-Sloan Wilson
Good Quote for January 20, 2014
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
-Nelson Mandela
Good Quote for January 19, 2014
Before I was married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
-John Wilmot (attributed)
Good Quote for January 18, 2014
“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.”
– Jim Butcher
Good Quote for January 17, 2014
“Where there is love, there is no imposition.”
—Albert Einstein — Quoted in Sayen, Einstein in America, 294