Focus on the REALITY Family

I know this holds true in my house. Parenting is equal opportunity, a partnership, and a part of our lives we wouldn’t trade for anything.

The unheralded result of women entering the workforce, thanks in large part to family planning, has been the rise of the real family man and the making of the more devoted father. It is to the point where the vast majority of men today, 72 percent, say they would sacrifice pay and job opportunities for more time with their families. Spike TV found that most men would choose attending their kids’ sporting event over an important work obligation. The Spike TV pollsters explain, “There’s been a paradigm shift. Men want involvement with kids. Even with infants, they get up at night. It was NEVER like this before. They’re taking parenting seriously. New responsibilities with kids and in homes are enriching men’s lives. They’re excited by it and proud.” - Huffpo

I’ve worked my children’s entire lives. I’ve heard a hundred times I have the nicest kids. There is no breakdown in my family because I work, contribute to our economic well being, and develop professionally as an adult. Nor is my husband treated punitively by his employer because he volunteers a week every year to Cub Scout camp, leaves early to attend school programs, or any of the many kid related things that he wants and likes to do.

Team Netwal is getting it done and having a full life while doing it. We are raising our kids with our values, humor and empathy. We know that our daughter and sons will need to be able to function in a world where work satisfaction and personal happiness can both be pursued and obtained by each of them.

That’s what my family is focused on.

Crossposted at Bring It On!

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time

there is something more precious than money or things- and it is something that we never seem to have enough of- and that’s time. there are only 24 hours each day and it never seems to be enough time to cram everything in we want to do- but why? nothing irks me more than getting tailgated or passed on the highway by people who have to go 800 miles per hour. why is your time so much more valuable than mine? and why didn’t you leave earlier? why is it that we don’t have enough time? i look around and i see folks at work- and i know that we, here in new america, work longer hours than ever before. i also know that people waste much time shopping. and is it really necessary for your kids to be in every activity under the sun? in the grander scheme of things, i guess it doesn’t matter.

time is something that we are running out of. yes, i know we are all going to die someday but i am talking about quality of life. our world is changing at a speed never seen before- and in a way never seen before. i don’t know if we can turn back the tide of global climate change- many leading scientists feel it’s already too late. greed and lust for power and profits were put in front of the well being of billions of people over 40 years ago- and we have inherited that legacy. and really, what is it that we are wasting time for? a bigger house? a home full of stuff and a storage facility brimming with the overflow?

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