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Chris Stapleton Was A ‘Stay At Home Dad’ In 2020

Chris Stapleton is pretty quiet about his personal life and rarely talks publicly about his children, but in a recent interview, he did share how his kids have been doing…

Chris Stapleton's 2020 Gift In a Year 'Devoid of Gifts'
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Chris Stapleton is pretty quiet about his personal life and rarely talks publicly about his children, but in a recent interview, he did share how his kids have been doing during the pandemic with having their dad home.

Chris told us of being an at-home dad, "Well, you get a lot better at changing diapers. You get out of practice sometimes when you only get two or three days a week of it."

He adds, "My older children are 11 and 10 and they're turning into little pre teenagers and things like that. So there's all kinds of new personality and emotional space to be explored with them. And it's really interesting to talk to them and hear their takes on things and hear about what they are really passionate about and love and their dislikes. They're very opinionated, you know."

Stapleton says of his dad duties, "I get the boys up every morning and make them breakfast and watch them run around, you know, and it's a special thing to get to do. And what a privilege and a gift in a year that on the surface might seem very devoid of gifts."

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.