Posted on 01/02/2007 7:01:20 PM PST by FReepaholic
The media image of fathers--long portrayed as bumbling, inept and irresponsible--is changing. This has been a good year for dads in the media. One example is Sony Pictures new movie The Pursuit of Happyness.
Happyness stars Will Smith as Chris Gardner, a homeless, hard-luck single father with a five year-old son. Through sheer force of will, Gardner raises his boy and pulls them out of poverty, eventually becoming a multi-millionaire. The movie is based on a true story and co-stars Smiths eight year-old son as Gardners son Christopher.
As Gardner, Will Smith strives to create a ''normal'' environment for Christopher, even when the two were spending their nights on the floor of a public bathroom in Oakland. Gardner explains:
"We may not have known where we were going, where we were going to eat, or where we were going to sleep, but we were together every day. There are probably a lot of folks whose children live in million-dollar houses who can't say that."
Appearing recently on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Christopher, now 25, paid his father the greatest compliment any parent could receive:
"I didn't know we were homeless. I just remember that we were doing a whole lot of moving. I just know that when I looked up, he was there. I looked around, he was there."
(Excerpt) Read more at glennsacks.com ...
Great quote.
Children need quantity time, not quality time.
My kids like the quantity of our quality time, and quality of the quantity of time I spend with them. Of course it's not enough for any of us due to the divorce, but I do my damn best.
I like Will Smith. decent guy from everything I know of him.
Good stuff. Thanks for the post, FReepaholic.
I like that.
Good piece. Sacks is always good.
That's what that ad was?? I always thought the premise was that the car was so "cool" that the "dad" turned out to be a random stranger who just wanted to go on the family trip to ride in the new Ford.
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