Quality not Quantity

Parenting is an awesome task. In today's modern world the average adult is pulled by the constraints of career, home, family, and often time care for our elderly parents. We just don't have the time to devote to all of our responsibilities. Among the greatest obligations an adult parent has is the obligation we have for nurturing and teaching our kids. Overworked and over-scheduled adult parents are frantic for ways to meet parental obligations. For those of us who have been there we look back and see that it was not the amount of time we devoted to being parents but the quality of the time we set aside for our children. Emotional connection, intellectual development, and time for fun with our youngsters is the most important functions we parents have. For early childhood helping our kids develop a wholesome imagination, basic reading and language skills, and a good time for child AND parent are important undertakings. Parents are stressed and if we share that stress with our kids they will learn to be stressed too. So it is our task to first find a way to enter the parent - child world ready to engage, share, and grow with our kids!