• for children, love is spelled T.I.M.E.
• children need quantity time as well as quality time
• significance of first eighteen months of a child’s life
• who will be our child’s main caregiver?
• can be hard to work out balance of parenting and employment
  • working at home/from home
  • full-time/part-time
• the time we spend with our children is more powerful in communicating our love than anything we say
• we need to prioritize our time
  • learning when to said “yes” to our children and “no” to other people and things
  • the only place we are indispensable is at home
• we need to plan our time
  • time with the people who are most precious to us doesn’t just happen
  • if married, plan marriage time” each week
  • as a parent, plan “family time” each week
  • plan some one-to-one time with each child (we will look at this in detail in Session 2 Part 2)
• we need to protect our time from
  • the TV
  • the telephone
  • other people
  • our work

What demands on your time stop you from spending time with your children?