1. Be the first good role model. It starts when they are very young. So much of their behavior towards boys as teenagers is a reflection of how their father treated their mother. Therefore it is critical for parents to treat each other with genuine love and respect if you want your daughters to find the same.
The flag was designed by Charles A.R. Dunn who wrote The Origins of the District of Columbia Flag about his flag design. He was employed painting US state flags, which made him notice that many of them lacked a good design and that there was no flag for Washington, DC.
The iconic 1893 painting of Ross sitting in her Philadelphia parlor with the sun beaming down on the flag in her lap is a scene invented by Charles H. Weisgerber, the artist and entrepreneur who profited from the Betsy Ross legend. While Ross did make flags in Philadelphia in the late 1770s, it is all but certain that the story about her creating the American flag is a myth. As President Woodrow Wilson, who presided over the first official national Flag Day on June 14, 1916, is said to have replied when asked his thoughts on the story: âWould that it were true.â