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Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know.

Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

All kids want from their dad is for them to be around - and to show up when they say they're going to show up.

When I'm home, I've got the kind of time that other dads who live there full time don't have. I can go and have lunch with my kids at school and that sort of thing.