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Mar 2024
36m 49s

Family Culture Around Quality Time

Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd
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Today we're diving into how we create family culture with quality time. We talk about what quality time looks like in our families currently and what it doesn't look like. For Friends of the Show, we're chatting over on Patreon about quality time with our spouses.

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This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained

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