Parents influence their child’s culture by leading them to different activities. For example, as a kid, you don’t usually know what to do, so your parents help guide you to try and find something you love to do (baseball, football, basketball, etc.). In the story, My Mother Pieced Quilts, Teresa Palomo Acosta states, “Sewn hard and taut to withstand the thrashings of twenty-five years, stretched out they lay, armed/ready/shouting/celebrating, knotted with love.” The mother had made these quilts 25 years ago, as she gave the quilts to her daughter. The quilts symbolizes love as the daughter realizes the quilt is more than just a cover for the January winds. This evidence shows that parents influence their child’s culture by for every winter,