Oh, Grandpa
By Anne Marie Allocca
Charles Keating (Carl) has some pretty peculiar views on child-rearing. Babies! You just treat them like a bloody pet!" quips the AW star, who helped his wife, Mary, baby-sit their 6-month-old granddaughter for a week recently. "Put a bowl on the floor and let them scrooch over and lap it up," he adds. "You check on them every other day, water them and they're fine. Mary didn't like it, but I said, "I'm sure the kid can eat budgerigar seed and develop a great whistle,'" he continues, explaining that a budgerigar is an Australian parakeet. "My philosophy is you get them going to school at 18 months, and at 2, they're out looking for a job. That's the way it's supposed to be." Charles is equally mischievous when asked which parent Katie resembles. "All babies look like Winston Churchill," he declares. "Kate is small, soft, and fuzzy like the rest of them. She's crawling around. She eats well and drools brilliantly."
Soap Opera Magazine
26 November 1996