Follow for more expert parenting strategies and guidance! Speaker: Dr. Gabor Maté Source: Behind the Curtain with Gabor Maté. On Childhood, Parenting, Vocation, Marriage, Divorce & Healing | Mind Architect More than ever before, parents and children are separated. At least in the United States. Most families require two working parents. Everyone utilizes daycare and school at a high rate as care centers for our children. That includes programs before and after school, limiting the time spent together. Add in the reality of the pace of society and families, particularly parents, always finding themselves busy and burdened with tasks, and the amount of quality time we have is decreasing. It's an unfortunate reality of our situation, but there all hope isn't lost. There's still a lot of time left for our families, and we can experience a lot of the important interactions as long as we are intentional about it. But we need to put down our phones and devices, protect family time together, and ensure we're making the most of it. The intentionality we have around our family is the difference between us (the parents) raising our children and their peers, teachers, and daycare providers raising them instead. Share this post with another parent who needs to hear it!