It’s hard to believe that Ralph Macchio, a.k.a. the original Karate Kid, is forty nine years old and has teenagers of his own. He doesn’t look much older than he did when he was learning to, “wax on, wax off” and besides, the Karate Kid is the father of teenagers, what does that mean about the rest of us?
But when Macchio, who is taking a turn on Dancing With the Stars this season, introduced his family on the show this Monday it included his two teenage children. There will be a lot of people judging his dancing this season, but his daughter, Julia,19, and his son, Daniel, 15, are the two judges he’s most worried about.
“On the top of everything else, I’m the dad of two teenagers, so let’s face it — now, I have to make sure I don’t embarrass my kids,” he said on Monday’s show. That’s why he brought in the teens, along with their mother, to critique his efforts before he revealed them on the dance floor.
“I wanted to get some honest opinions on the jive, so I called in the family,” Ralph said in a clip reel on Monday’s episode. “I know I can count on them to let me know if I, you know, suck.”
“Before it started, I was like, ‘Uhhh, I’m really gonna have to critique him on this one,’” Daniel said of his dad’s rehearsal moves. “Surprisingly, it was better than I expected.”
Julia also had some advice for her dad. ”Don’t think too much, like obviously you have to get the steps in your head, but just have fun,” she said in the clip reel.
We may hate to admit that any of us are old enough for the Karate Kid to have a daughter who can give such wise, grown up advice, but its always nice to see celebrity kids who have turned out so well!
