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Childhood is much more than logistics and administration. Your parents are there during your formative years, teaching you, often through example. Also, your em
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
Childhood is much more than logistics and administration. Your parents are there during your formative years, teaching you, often through example. Also, your emphasis on conversation seems strange. As much as I like a good conversation, this is not what defines the parent-child relationship. It is not what makes this relationship valuable above all else. Who would you rather have? A parent who sacrifices immensely for your good, or a good conversationalist who can't be bothered?
- balderdash 4y agoEverything you said is true, and is not mutually exclusive with my point that all hours spent together should carry the same weight. I use the word conversation as a short hand for being present with someone. Just look around a restaurant and see families eating a meal together where some or all of them are lost in their phones/devices, in some respects those people are having dinner on their own. Put another way, I’ve seen plenty parents that are physically present, and emotionally absent, and other parents that may have have less physical hours spent with a child, but are more are more present and involved in their lives.