Neal Pollack is an author, blogger, sometimes-punk-rocker and a full-time parent. His book Alternadad is a humorous memoir chronicling his early days as an offbeat parent.
In her memoirs Golda Meir tells the story of how as a teenager in Milwaukee she used to stand on a soapbox outside her local synagogue and preach the Zionist cause. When her father learned of this, he threatened to drag her home by her braid for shaming the family. But Golda's oratory abilities were so engaging that on the day her father meant to drag her home, he was spellbound by her speech and vowed to never stop her from speaking publicly again.