Jerry p lanier biography for kids

Dr. Jerry Lanier is the founder and CEO of Kids Dental Kare. His dental practice is California’s largest pediatric dentist, but things weren’t always so prosperous for Lanier who grew in a rural area outside of Snowhill, North Carolina in poverty.

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His family had a farm with seventeen acres, but was dirt poor. There were eleven children, and he was the third oldest. At one point he lived in a four-room house. That is, thirteen people in four rooms.

His father never finished elementary school and his mom didn’t finish high school, but children’s education was important to them.

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His dad was always independent and worked for himself. He did not believe in working for other people because he didn’t want them to have too much control over his or their family’s life. According to Dr. Lanier, “when you are poor, you don’t know anything else so it doesn’t seem bad.

I remember, at one point when we had a TV that had sound but no picture; so for a while when friends were talking about TV s