5-Minute Time Out: Eddie House
The Celtics player on his biggest fan: his eight-year-old son.
by Jeanne Sager
June 18, 2009
He may wear an NBA championship ring around his finger, but Boston Celtics guard Eddie House is about to be outdone. . . by his eight-year-old son. Jaelen House is already known for his constant presence on the court during Celtics' home games, and The Cartoon
Network is now filming his day-to-day life for My Dad Is a Pro, to air this fall. Babble sat down to talk with Eddie House, a player known for being a dad first, about how his family is just like any other. . . with a few extra perks. —
Jeanne Sager
We hear your son is a big fan of the Cartoon Network?
He's a fan of the Cartoon Network, all that stuff. He watches a bunch of them. He has them all TiVo'd on his Direct TV box!
So how did this opportunity to star on one of their shows come about?
They asked if it was something I'd be interested in doing [as part of a partnership between the NBA and the Cartoon
Network], and I asked him if he'd be interested in doing it. He said, "Yeah!"
"We're not big sticklers on going to sleep at nine."
You're already an NBA star, but how do you feel about the cameras following you home?
It's kind of weird, but at the same time it's a good way to get a look at how we live day-to-day life like everybody else. I think it's a good concept; it'll show that he lives is the same type of life, just with
a few extra perks.
The cameras have caught Jaelen a lot; he's always out there at the Celtics' games. When did you realize people were paying attention to the fact that he's at the games?
When people started calling me from home saying "Your boy's on TV again, your boy's on TV again!" Just telling me he's always on TV every time they watch one of my games.
Does he have a bedtime? I'm beginning to think he's always there!
[Laughs.] Yeah, he does have a bedtime. But we're kind of lax around here. We're not big sticklers on going to sleep at nine. We give him leeway, especially during the summer.
Your twins will be three in September, so I'm guessing they don't really get to go to games yet?
Yeah, they go to the games. Not as much as him.
How do you make sure they stay kids being kids?
We try to raise them the way I was raised, try to raise them right. That's it
— try to instill all the positive things that you can. Everything else will take care of itself.
©2009 Babble
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Jeanne Sager is a freelance writer and photographer living in upstate New York with her husband and daughter, Jillian. She maintains a blog of her award-winning columns at jeannesager.blogspot.com. |
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