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My kids want my attention. So does my phone
Parents may struggle to find a balance between daily life and being there for our children. But in the long game of parenting, what matters is not perfection – but that we do our best.
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Being a full-time working parent means you need to strike an uneasy balance between your day-to-day life and being present for your children, says the writer, pictured here with his family.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF ANDREW HAN
Andrew Han
By 10pm, the boys are tucked in and the house is finally quiet. My wife and I retreat to the bedroom. Most nights, we are both on our phones within minutes. But we are not doomscrolling.
She is checking the enrichment class schedule because one of the boys needs to swop a slot. I am replying to a work e-mail I told myself I would get to earlier, and somewhere between that we are also trying to figure out when exactly to book the year-end school holiday trip before the good dates disappear.
