Swelling with pride, Bruce Springsteen says his children struggle with the lyrics of his hits and are uninterested in his life-long vocation. Parenting advice from rock stars isn’t taken seriously but The Boss, on Jimmy Kimmel Live! some years back, had grown-ups nodding their heads, and also giving that You’ve gets it chuckle.
“Kids don’t want to go anywhere where 50,000 people are cheering for their parents. They would want 50,000 people to boo their parents.” And this wasn’t some late-life wisdom gained from hindsight.
Around the mid-90s, Springsteen, within years of getting married to his one-time pal from New Jersey and later-day band buddy Patti Scialfa, moved from California, the music industry hub, to the place where they first met. It was a journey back home for the sake of their children. The man with millions of adoring fans worldwide thought he, because of his area of work, wasn’t the right role model for the kids. The couple wanted their children to be away from the make-believe showbiz world. Like them, they wanted their children to breathe the homely New Jersey air.
“I am in a job that retards your growth by nature. My job is so weird, it is not a real model for how you will go about and live your life,” he would tell Kimmel. “We had an 80-member Italian-Irish family. That was the way I grew up. I wanted my kids to have that sense of a bigger world than the…
