Barbara Cowsill talks to DB about her riotous kids - with a few family interruptions.
Barbara Cowsill always ready to talk about her fabulous family.
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They're all crazy! But in the nicest possible way, you know. Even so, all the boys are kind of timid.
Bill: Yes, we're all very shy.
— Bill, particularly, is very quiet. He has quite a bit of depth to him.
Bill; I do not!
— Bob is the family clown, but he likes to be by himself sometimes. Then he reads. He's a very good student. John is very vital and spark-ly. He just loves living, and being 11, you know
— like he says, he loves everything and all the colors of the world. Barry is very conscientious
— he's the realist of the family.
Bill: Let me have a go.
For myself, I'm very defensive. Barry is sensitive, I think. John is
happy-go-lucky. Bob
goes more for academic subjects than athletics. Susan will do anything we ask her to do.
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Lead singer, Bill, gives little sister Susan some guitar lessons.
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When eight-year-olds get tired, they like nothing better than to cuddle up with Dad.
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As for my mother— she's with the group because we asked her to be—not because she wants to be a star. She wants to be with her family, and seeing how we left home all the time, she decided... well, to coin a phrase ...if you can't beat them, join them.
— I don't know whether they'll all want to remain
performers when they
grow up — ambitions
change. At the moment I
think Barry wants to be
a surgeon; Bill wants to
teach English; and Bob
wants to teach algebra.
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DB: Are there any discipline problems?
— No, because we're
still raising a family.
We do what we have always done except that
we cooperate more on
things.
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