And, interestingly, they make more time for family intimacy by not enrolling their children in every activity under the sun. “I have four kids and they all play together, so it’s not like they’re ever lonely,” Cheryl says. This gets at an important discovery: functioning as a taxi service is not a parental core competency in the way that eating dinner together or doing Bible studies together (frequent Chumley activities) are. Plus, it does little good to have your children enrolled in many different activities if the fragmentation means that Mom and Dad can’t build the kind of happy marriage
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