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What Star Dads Know About Parenting
Celebrity Fathers on How to Be a Great Dad
By Dr. Laurie Nadel
A father of two boys and two girls, Billy Bob Thornton thinks we make it too easy for children by giving everyone a trophy.
"Sports are supposed to serve as an example of life for kids, and life doesn't hand you trophies for doing nothing," Thornton says. He believes that if every kid in Little League gets a trophy it makes children lazy.
That may sound like odd advice coming from Alpha male Donald Trump who has fathered five children. But hey, you can't fire them for being kids. The Donald believes it makes sense to encourage your children to be themselves, even if that means they disagree with you.
Wise words, indeed, from Denis Leary, actor, writer and director of Rescue Me, a TV drama about New York City firemen after 9/11. As a boy growing up in New York City, Leary's worst summer occurred when his parents sent him to summer camp in New Hampshire.
"We got on this big yellow bus and drove toward this odd thing called trees," Leary says, remembering. But on the way to camp, the city kids got into a fight with the suburban kids and were sent home. "We were gone approximately eight hours."
