Like father, like sons. While discussing how old kids should be in order to be left home alone on Friday’s Live with Kelly and Mark , Mark Consuelos recalled an instance in which he and Kelly Ripa left their two sons, Michael and Joaquin, home alone.
Ripa said that their eldest son was “maybe 14” at the time, while Consuelos noted their youngest was “6 or 7.”
“We were gone for maybe an hour,” he explained, as Ripa pointed out they “went to the grocery store.”
Consuelos continued, “We said, ‘Watch your brother. We’ll be back shortly.’”
The two shared that when they arrived back home, the doors were locked.
“I pull into the garage, I’m knocking on the garage door so they can open the door,” Consuelos remembered. “They open the door, they go back into the TV room, and I see on the countertop of the laundry room two massive butcher knives.”
Consuelos said he “grabbed the butcher knives” and asked Michael what the fuss was about.
“‘Oh, Joaquin and I were a little scared, so we were just protecting ourselves because we saw people in the yard,’” he remembered being told. “I go, ‘You mean the landscapers? The guy planting the tree? You thought they were dangerous because they were planting a tree?’ You can never be too careful!”
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Ripa claimed the same did not go for their daughter, Lola.
“Conversely, we could’ve left Lola home probably from the age of 18 months onward,” she quipped. “She was like, ‘I got it. You want me to watch the two ding dongs? No problem.’”
Consuelos then shared a childhood story from when his grandfather was visiting from Italy, suggesting that the protective instinct may not fall too far from the tree.
“We were in Southern Illinois. He was in his 80s, and I was probably 10 [or] 11 years old,” he noted. “It was just him and me at home, and we heard a noise. It’s daylight, and we heard something. We were in the kitchen. And we both grabbed knives. So it must be genetic.”
Ripa, who deemed knives “a weird thing to grab,” teased, “Are you guys gonna stab somebody? No!”
After Consuelos insisted the move was to “defend yourself, Ripa exclaimed, “The best case scenario is you stab each other or you wind up getting stabbed by the perpetrator!”
However, Consuelos noted that his Italian grandmother, who was “very upset” that he was moving to America, told him, “‘You know, they’ll kidnap you in America.’”
Ripa joked, “Well, she wasn’t that wrong.”
Consuelos added, “But she was like, ‘It’s very dangerous in America.’”
Ripa noted, “Well, it was the 70s.”
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Source: Los Angeles Times (edited)
