The Family Board Meeting: You Have 18 Summers To Create Lasting Connection With Your Children by Jim Sheils - HTML preview

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• “I make my own hours. I can spend time with my kids whenever I want.”

• “I work from home. I see my kids all the time.”

But just like driving your kids around and watching TV together isn’t quality time, working with your kids nearby isn’t quality time either.

At the heart of all of these stories is a single truth: we don’t understand the difference between time and quality time.

• Yes, your phone might enable you to keep tabs on work while you play hooky for the afternoon and stay home with the kids, but that time is not the same as quality time.

• Yes, your success might buy a better vacation and a nicer school and a beautiful home, but those things are not quality time.

• Yes, the logistics of getting kids to and from school and sports and clubs and friends and camps means you are together. But that time is not the same as quality time.

There is no replacement for quality time. Not your success. Not the trust fund you create. Not your hard work, or the gifts you buy, or the neighborhood you live in. What your kids need is true connection, and to achieve this, you need not just time, but quality time.

Remember: time together isn’t the same as quality time together.