Mother brings a child late to contact by half-an-hour; father then requires an extra half-hour the next week. This is getting silly. If, in fact, the father does not see the child at all, of course he should see the child on another occasion, but there are fathers who actually add up the minutes and produce it and say 'Now I should have so much more contact because I lost five minutes last week and ten minutes the week before'.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Fathers obsessing over minute differences in contact time is petty; scheduling should be reasonable, not a bookkeeping exercise.
- In plain terms
- Don’t nitpick small time differences in parenting duties.
- What can you take from it?
- Prioritize quality of time over exact minutes.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How to balance fairness with flexibility?
Another view
Sometimes precise tracking can protect rights.
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