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Microsoft founder Bill Gates has talked
about how to be a good parent, saying that 13 is a right age for a child's
first cellphone. The father of three said on the show that his children
Jennifer and Rory were not allowed having phones until their thirteenth
birthday and his younger daughter Phoebe is still waiting for one.
"We've
made a rule in our family that it's 13 when you get a phone." He also said
as a result his children often return home from school complaining(抱怨), "All the other kids have it. I'm the only one without it. It's
so embarrassing."
Asked if he keeps passwords(密码)to his son's and daughters' email and Facebook accounts(账号), Mr Gates said that he doesn't for Jennifer, who he said was"
old enough".
Besides their wealth, Mr and Mrs Gates, who
live in Lake Medina, have said they want to raise their children as normally as
possible. It is said that their kids have to do housework after school and
aren't given much pocket money.
And in 2010Mr Gates said that he wanted to
give most of his $ 61 billion away rather than hand it down." That
wouldn't be good for my kids or society, "he said.
Mr Gates left Microsoft in 2008 to put his
heart into charity. During the interview with host Matt Lauser, he said that
helping others made him feel happy as creating software.
"What you really feel is what you've
achieved. If a piece of software gets out there and lots of people love it-it
lets them get their work done in better ways-that's exciting, "he
explained.