As a kid who grew up with an overworked dad, thank you. Well, thanks dad too for bringing enough money at home. But not having played ball at all before 6 made

As a kid who grew up with an overworked dad, thank you. Well, thanks dad too for bringing enough money at home. But not having played ball at all before 6 made me a pretty isolated child, at an age where people socialize through sports. Not having much affective presence has been bad for my self-confidence, which is still a problem today. Not having enough discussion about dating girls made me isolated as a teenager and young adult. Sure that gave me plenty of time to succeed at school and I'm now sitting on a pile of money, which I can use to buy courses and any experience that I feel lacking. But there are some things that are just less painful to learn when we go through them with parents. I'm not a father and it is up to fathers to judge whether financial safety is more or less important than affection. But there are real, palatable, eventually financial, painful consequences from not spending time with your children, so much that spending time with children is often a pretty good thing to do.