DADvocate – How much time is enough?

Posted under DADvocate by metzgerbusiness on Tuesday 23 February 2010 at 11:04 pm

It feels like there is never enough time to spend with your kids. I imagine that’s true even for stay at home dads, but I know it’s true for most working fathers. We work hard to provide for the family, go to work, do our best to do a great job, and then come home and enjoy the kids for a few hours before we sit down and go back to work for the night, play on the internet, exercise, watch tv or hang out with the wife or even all the above. The weeks fly by and the weekends are even faster. As you can see from the above data we by a large majority are spending 1 -3 hours or less on weekdays with our kids, but it looks like we try to do our best to make up for it on the weekends.

Despite what these numbers indicate I still think we are tying to find ways to be more engaged with our children during the week. I know I try to be diligent about spend time with each of the kids at night, talk about there day and be present. I also try to find some fun game to play like hide and seek or something of that nature. What do you do during the week to deepen your involvement with your kids?

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  • dadofdivas

    I hear what you are saying Kevin, I struggle with this on a daily basis. Especially with trying to work full time and doing the whole blogging thing as well. I don't want to look back at these years and say, I wish…if you know what I mean!

  • http://www.TheDADvocateProject.com metzgerbusiness

    I'll admit that much of what I do is based on the fear of say “I wish” somewhere along the way I decided I'd rather fail then say “I wish….” Hey thanks you just gave me an idea for my next blog post over at DAD-O-Matic

  • beyondnormal

    'Time' – the one unrecoverable asset in life – we 'kill,' 'waste,' and otherwise fail to make best use of time.

    And when it is time with our kids, it is that much worse. We may think our children don't notice, but one of the highlights of my life was a comment by my youngest daughter about the fact that I had taken the time to come see her performance in a high school orchestra concert (about 90 minutes each way from where I lived) when so many of her friend's parents did not even come from ten minutes away.

    Kids notice – much more than we begin to know – give up whatever else you might think is more important – it can wait until they are gone – the first 18 years of life are very short and will be gone before you know it.

  • Jason

    It is so tough to get more than 3 hours of facetime with the kids during the week. Home from work @ 5:30 ish bedtime 8:30ish.

    I don't count the 45 min of dressing and eating before the bus comes.

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