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What about kids? "I won't spend time with my 2y.o. because he wants to drive trucks around in the mud and aspires to stop peeing his pants, and that just doesn'

• lotharbot 14y ago
  The advice in this article seems to be much the opposite of "work-life balance". It's suggesting that you stop spending so much time with your kids, your elderly parents, your sister with a mental illness, and so on -- or, rather, that if you spend time with such people, you'll be less "successful" or "accomplished". I don't buy it. IMO one of the major factors that encourages success is having a reason for your goals -- often, wanting to provide a good life for your family. In my current household, the five of us (who spend most of our time with each other) have primary ambitions of "make a solid career", "keep the household running smoothly", "recover from severe illness", "learn to poop in the toilet", and "learn to talk". Part of what makes us successful at the first two is the motivation to support the other three.