(Main photo: Patti, Bruce and son Evan on stage)
“When happens that we’re all together at our home in Colts Neck, New Jersey, Bruce and I still get up at seven every morning to make breakfast for the kids: oatmeal, pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs — the whole deal,” Patti once revealed to Express. “I know it sounds corny, but we like to have that time together in the morning as a family before everyone goes their separate ways.”
"Finally, one day she (Patti) came to me as I lay in bed around noon and simply said, “You’re gonna miss it.”
“Miss what?”
She said, “The kids, the morning, it’s the best time, it’s when they need you the most. They’re different in the morning than at any other time of day and if you don’t get up to see it, well then…you’re gonna miss it.”
The next morning, mumbling grumbling, stolid faced, I rolled out of bed at seven a.m. and found my way downstairs. “What do I do?”
She looked at me and said, “Make the pancakes.”
Make the pancakes? I’d never made anything but music my entire life. I…I…I…don’t know how!
“Learn.”
Aside from constantly supporting his children’s endeavors, Bruce once revealed the unique reason he and Patti settled down in New Jersey. Because the singer was born and raised in the Garden State, he yearned to raise his kiddos in a more private area near the Jersey Shore, as opposed to celebrity hotspots like New York City or Los Angeles.
Just like his parents, Evan — who was born on July 25, 1990 — has a passion for music. Even though he likes to occasionally sing and perform with his dad on stage, Bruce once jokingly dished none of his kids really know the lyrics to any of his songs.
“We had our kids late, I was 40 when our first son was born, and they showed a healthy disinterest in our work over all the years,” he explained in a interview with The New York Times. “They had their own musical heroes, they had their own music they were interested in. They’d be pretty blank-faced if someone mentioned a song title of mine.”
Jessica- In July 2021, Jessica achieved an accomplishment of a lifetime when she was chosen to represent Team USA at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo. (Closerweekly)
"Long ago, I’d promised myself that I would never lose my children in the way my father had lost me. It would’ve been a devastating personal failure, one for which I would have no excuse, and I would not have been able to forgive myself…"
Bruce also opened up about how his own childhood colored his views on parenting. Springsteen told CBS, “There were a lot of mistakes I didn’t want to make. And I think the way you look at it is, like, I don’t want my kids to have to dig themselves out of my hole. They’re gonna have their own hole they got to dig themselves out of… So as a parent, you do your best to not lay too much of your own bull**** on them.”
Sisters - During a 2009 concert, Springsteen hinted to the audience into the true stories that informed the song. “The River was a record that was sort of the gateway to a lot of my future writing,” Springsteen said. 
“It was a record we made after Darkness on the Edge of Town. It was a record made during a recession—hard times in the States. Its title song is a song I wrote for my brother-in-law and sister. My brother-in-law was in the construction industry, lost his job and had to struggle very hard back in the late ’70s, like so many people are doing today. It was a record where I first started to tackle men and women and families and marriage.” (VMZ)
The Boss would, while away the boring hours between shows playing a souped up version of Monopoly with his New Jersey muso pals in which the Chance and Community Chest cards had been re-written. Neither history nor the down-home Bruce (as seen in this clip from the documentary The Ties That Bind) has recorded all of the forfeits and gifts they awarded each other, apart from the satirical "Race Riot" card, which, if selected, would burn down all one's houses and hotels.
