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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

I was very protected growing up. My dad was very strict with me. I was the oldest of four kids, and there are three girls. So I kind of paved the way of what it was like to raise a teenage daughter.

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.