Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Time spent parenting is framed as a cost to the parent's own life.
- In plain terms
- Being with your child shortens your remaining time.
- What can you take from it?
- Parenting consumes a parent's time.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you value time?
- Is parenting a sacrifice or gain?
Another view
It frames parenting purely as loss.
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