Why a community movement? Why don individual families just say no?
We need a community movement because it is difficult for individual parents to take back family life in a culture that defines good parenting as providing more and doing more for one’s children. Parents feel increasing pressure to involve their children at ever-younger ages in activities that consume more and more family time as the years go by. Seasons get longer, practices and games more frequent, fine arts programs more intense, religious youth programs more consuming. Parents face the choice of not involving their child in these enriching activities, or else surrendering their family time and losing their family rituals. Change must occur in communities and in individual families.
