Make Time For Kids

Timing tends to be bad – every time they are free of want to ramble on about their day, I seem to be busy with work and some other seemingly important task. Why is that?

Many years ago in Macau - Picture courtesy of Stephen Chong

Maybe fate has it such that the stars never align and we never get a chance to spend quality time with our children? Or are we not making ourselves available to them at times when they are available? Note that kids normally have shorter availability hours because they are in school, have homework to do, go to bed earlier and so on while adults (OK, me, since I can’t speak for everyone) have no homework to do and go to bed later. Mathematically speaking, their free-time is a subset of mine and as a result, I have to make time for them.

So make time for them – and stop what you’re doing when you need to. Because one day you will want to stop, and it wouldn’t matter.