How Our Children Train Us
As adults, and parents, we are in a perpetual balancing act — a tug of war for time and focus — of competing bids for our attention. Our work, children, homes, mates, friends, non-nuclear families, and an unending list of ‘grown-up’ responsibilities related to the management of every aspect of civilized life, all continually jockey for position in our minds, hearts and hours — forever derailing our concentration.