okay how you do you have kids
yeah i have a uh twelve year old son and a fourteen year old daughter
oh they're just teenagers huh almost
right so uh
so it's uh an interesting experience for us but we're kind of lucky uh in that regard because uh the church we belong to has a a program that they've had for quite a few years that they call family home evening
and that program is designed to uh
bring the family together at least once a week on Monday night
so we uh i guess i could say religiously
dedicate Monday evening to doing just that and each each week uh each one of us takes uh responsibility for that particular Monday night
yeah
now now do you find that that that's uh
see how would i say that do you find that uh
that that it's well i mean it's it's
that it works
you could do that on a Monday on a Monday do you find it
that it's easy to do that on Monday nights or is it
um-hum it because it turns out that Monday night of all of the other nights of the week generally is the one that has the least number of other outside influences going on
so we find that it works out quite well and
uh we actually look forward to it because we get to spend so little time together otherwise
and uh as i said each one of us'll plan uh something for the particular Monday and it can be anything because it is kind of a
a church sponsored thing once in a while we'll have a a religious lesson maybe once a month that alternates amongst us but uh we might go to a movie or we might watch something here or play a game or just sit and read or uh
or whatever that individual feels that they would like to do
that's what we do
oh that sounds pretty good are do you find that that uh uh i guess with us
yeah
i have uh
four kids at home now and
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and uh
let's see uh a six a five year old a thirteen year old uh excuse me five eleven thirteen and seventeen
and uh
Saturdays is a is it's difficult to get everybody
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organized and rounded up uh so they get the chores done and don't home in on the television immediately when they when they get up
right
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um actually and during the school nights uh
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uh the we have a rule now that that uh because the kids are so easily distracted by the you know
right
uh that uh no television on school nights and no
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hum and right not at all or until it's all done or uh
none at all
not at all that's that's a good but uh that's a good idea but
it's well they think it's draconian they think it's terrible you know
right yeah hard to enforce i'm sure
uh well no it's not that hard to enforce it's just uh because if there's you know if it's
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i found out that if
if uh
if i let one of them watch pretty soon they'd all be watching
um-hum that's right including yourself yeah can't let yourself watch either that'll work
so i so i said that
well no television and no ball games and the reason no ball games is because the kids'll stick their earphones on and and listen to ball games and try and do their piano believe it or not
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right
we have another uh another advantage to is that uh three of the four of us are ham radio operators
oh is that that's that's a pretty good hobby isn't it
yeah so we have a uh a hobby in common and we can talk to one another over the air too on uh on many occasions
and uh matter of fact we're my son and i are watching the the shuttle right now uh they've got four ham radio operators on board the shuttle
and uh so we been trying to make contact with them and it's uh it's headed towards the DC area right now yeah matter of fact it's uh it's over the horizon now
oh is that right that's very nice
well now that's kind of that's interesting to me because
a lot of uh you know in keeping on the uh the family thing here the reason that's interesting is because i've noticed that some families have
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like the the parent i knew some ham and uh
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there's a tendency and i i think a lot of it depends on the family for like the ham to go in his in his uh room and shut the door
right in the ham shack um hum
in a shack and shut the door and the rest of the family was excluded
right and that's the last you ever see of him and uh
and that's
and uh he speaks a totally different language
and the fact that and i read one time that uh there was a high divorce rate in in uh
Cape Canaveral down there or Cape Kennedy or whatever you call it because the engineer would come home go in his study close the door and that was it
uh-huh
right
uh-huh
and uh just sort of an autocrat so the fact that you've got three participants in your family that uh that do that is that's a credit to you what are
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let's say i i guess my other question about uh
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when it comes to when they're on their own
you know i mean if if you have to go if you and your wife go someplace
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what typically
