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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1959)
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If the kids wanted something sensible that cost more than they could afford like a microscope which helped Jack "in his biology course or the atlas Diane needed not long ago I let them have the money. Naturally, once in a while I got trapped that way. When Jack was 10, he talked me into letting him buy a pair of bongo drums which, he convinced me, would do wonders for his sense of rhythm. It did. It also outdated conversation in our house. I finally solved the problem by giving him a jack knife for his next birthday. I knew he'd want to see what was inside those drums. The only times I was really taken aback by my children occurred on my television shows. For me, my own children used to be the hardest kids to interview. Because I live with them, I know them so well that I can anticipate their reactions. That spoiled the spontaneity. The interviews that did turn out well were due to the many hdttrs Lois and I spent in advance, try ing to figure out what I could ask them. And then the answers were truly surprising and sometimes embarrassing. I once asked Diane in front of the cameras, "What do you like best to do with Mommy and Daddy?" "I like to break up their fights!" she burst out. I was startled. I knew what she meant. I also knew that the audience thought it was eavesdrop ping on our quarrels. "Hey, you better explain." Luckily Diane told how, whenever I take Lois in my arms and kiss her, she loves to squeeze in between us and yell,- "Break up the fight!" . One cause of most disagreements in big fami lies never had a chance with our kids jealousy. First of all, there was enough difference in ages so that they seldom wanted the same things at the same time. Secondly, we made it plain that each age Family Weekly, October 25, 1959 Linkletfer musicale features Art and Bob on strings, Diane and Sharon on rhythm. Below, Art holds year-old grandson Michael. had specific privileges, such as having to be 10 to go on our yearly pack trip to the High Sierras and 16 to accompany Lois and me abroad? Thirdly, we were fortunate in being able to give each child his or her own room from the very beginning which meant they all had privacy and their own belong ings for which they were responsible. I thought because we always did things together, we were a close family. I never knew how close until my Dawn married Lt. John Zeweyer of the Air Force, and I learned that even family closeness must be outgrown. - I was all in favor of a small wedding. In fact, I wouldn't have minded an elopement. But Lois had already purchased Brussels lace for the wedding dress and silks from Hong Kong for the bridesmaids. To go along with the show I offered the kids a choice of a honeymoon cruise to Honolulu or a chartered yacht to take them to Mexico. When they settled for the yacht, I hired one with several staterooms, then asked if it wouldn't be fun if Lois and I joined them. Dawn gratefully declined to have her father's wit " and her mother's charm along and observed that if we wanted to go somewhere by boat, the Catalina ferry was still running. Thus I learned family close ness, too, has bounds. . " Frankly, I was a bit melancholy when the sec ond of our children left home. And a little worried. Lois and I have been married for 25 years. It's been 22 years since we've had our first child, and there was never a time we had a fight. I feared the kids might not know how to cope with marriage problems of their own, should they have any, since we had been lucky enough to avoid most of them. Curiously it wasn't Jack or Dawn but our young est, Diane, who put my mind partially at ease the other day when she blurted out how her girl friend's bedroom is right next to her parents' "... . and she's got the best place because she can hear all their arguing all the time." - "That's dreadful, isn't it?" I came back. Diane looked up in surprise. "Why?" "Because how can a marriage like that last?" "But, Daddy," she came back, "her parents just celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary. What's wrong with that?" What indeed? It looks to me like I might have been a bit overly protective as far as my children are concerned.
