Squeezing in Quality Time
Eccentric Father, a new site added to my blogroll, hits on a key issue I always like to address, and that is quality time. He believes that quantity + quantity + quantity + quantity = quality time and in fact starts his article this way:
“Quality time is a myth started by parents who do not wish to spend as much time as they possibly can with their children.”
I do agree with him to a certain degree. I actually believe there are parents who wish they could spend more time with their kids and so through denial and justification they in fact turn the tide. It is all about quality time they say. I believe this to be true in a lot of cases BUT, I also believe that quantity time does not always lead to quality time.
An example would be the dad takes his son to the park for the entire day and lets him run all over the place while dad sits on his cell phone and talks to friends, clients, co-workers, or whoever.
So quantity does not always lead to quality time and to get quality time you need to spend as much time as you can with your child. Does that make sense to you?
-sillydad
But does sitting on the park bench even qualify as time spent with your child.
I agree with the premise of spending time with your children. They will make up the quality of it if you are there. You never can tell when they are going to ask something profound or make you laugh. You are either there for it or not.
March 24th, 2006 at 7:30 pm