Staying Powell: Marie Husa

In an interview with Nancy Perry Graham, Colin Powell talked about raising kids:

"I sometimes use the metaphor of the pinball machine.  You know, you shoot this ball out and out comes this kid, and the kid goes bouncing around the pinball machine, hitting the bumpers and heading into the holes that take you nowhere, and just about the time you're about to slide off into nowhere, the flippers kick you back into play.  That's your parents, it's your family, your cousins, your peers, your teachers, your coaches, your ministers, your rabbis.  Kids need adults to keep them in play while they're figuring out where they want to go."