Kids are not kids forever. People feel like they have infinite time when they are young/in their prime. They don't and it is too late by the time the realizatio

Kids are not kids forever. People feel like they have infinite time when they are young/in their prime. They don't and it is too late by the time the realization dawns in. By then, they have grown and moved out and that work which feels so intellectually stimulating/meaningful now does not necessarily feel the same way then. I love programming and that is why I got into my choice of career. However, that program I spent so much time writing/crafting, at the expense of family time, will be obsolete/decomissioned before long. Hell even I won't care about it after a while. The kids are not going to be decommissioned though. If we don't care about them now, they don't have any obligation to care about us then.