Setting out on a long world tour for Bennington, 34, means putting in advance time with his family - he has a wife and five children (four of his own plus a niece) that touring often necessitates leaving behind.
They won't be joining dad in Australia before Christmas as the kids will still be stuck in school, where, as their proud dad tells it, they're excelling.
"My oldest son has taken up music, that's all he does all day long, every day. My niece is a high honour-roll student, and in a cheerleading squad. And my second to oldest son is a baseball player, he wants to play basketball, and he's also a high honour-roll student."
They're all brainiacs, by the sounds of it. Not the run-of-the-mill rock 'n' roll progeny.
"Yup, they're geniuses," Bennington laughs, "and I have no idea why."
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