{"id":208,"date":"2019-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydad.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2022-06-29T01:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T01:50:24","slug":"its-all-quality-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydad.com\/its-all-quality-time\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s All Quality Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ll hear other dads talk about the need for \u201cquality time\u201d with their kids. It\u2019s sort of a strange phrase, if you think about it. Because it implies a kind of hierarchy of time that nobody has ever really bothered to define. There\u2019s a judgement to it too, that maybe the time or experiences you\u2014the busy, ordinary, doing-the-best-you-can dad\u2014give your kids is not enough.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The comedian Jerry Seinfield, who has three kids\u2014an 18-year-old daughter, a 16-year-old son, and a 13-year-old son\u2014pushes back against that. Special days? Nah. Every day is special. Every minute can be quality time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a believer in the ordinary and the mundane. These guys that talk about \u2018quality time\u2019 \u2013 I always find that a little sad when they say, \u2018We have quality time.\u2019 I don\u2019t want quality time. I want the garbage time. That\u2019s what I like. You just see them in their room reading a comic book and you get to kind of watch that for a minute, or [having] a bowl of Cheerios at 11 o\u2019clock at night when they\u2019re not even supposed to be up. The garbage, that\u2019s what I love.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Your job is not to entertain them. Or to curate every minute of their lives so that everything is meaningful and important and edifying. <\/span>Your job is to be their dad.<\/span><\/i> You job is to <\/span>be there.<\/span><\/i> To help them see that quality is what we make it, that it\u2019s always within our reach if we so choose. Eating cereal together can be wonderful. Blowing off school for a fun day together can be wonderful\u2014but so can the twenty minute drive in traffic to school. So can taking out the garbage or watching a garbage truck meander through the neighborhood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All time with your kids is created equal. What do you with it is what makes it special.<\/span><\/p>\n

P.S.\u00a0<\/i><\/b>This was originally sent<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a> on June 19 2019. Sign up today for <\/i><\/b>the Daily Dad’s email <\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span>and get our popular 11 page eBook, \u201c20 Things Great Dads Do Everyday<\/i><\/b>.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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