Say what?

When my daughter was winning 3 back to back Gold Medals for the Regional Gauss Math competition she got me a "Math Dad" Tee shirt when her high school math team was having Tees made up. (In contrast to a Soccer Mom bumper sticker -). Her Tee said "Quarterback".  She also got me an MIT Dad Tee shirt and mug when she was doing her fully funded PhD in Chemical Oceanography. I worked through practice math exam questions with her when she was unable to intuit the correct algorithm herself. I also helped her with her French homework.

You have to be careful what you say to children. On her way home from her Orange Julius part time job we somehow got into a discussion of Iron being a limiting nutrient for marine plankton. Next thing I know she had won a Chemical Society award for an undergrad paper on "Ironing Out" ocean nutrient deficiencies and went on to become an NSERC and CMOS PhD fellowship winner. No dad as a college ATM there.