Any Given Moment: Advice About Relationships and Multitaslking

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my son realigned my views this morning.

My wife left earlier to lead a children’s program at church and left me at home with the boys. I figured it would be a synch and no big deal. It wasn’t the first time that I watched them myself. I was actually looking forward to being with just the guys.

After all, I am working for most of their waking days.

The Excuse

I wasn’t doing it on purpose, but it happens primarily because of my easily distracted mind. I’m so used to multitasking that I tend to put people on the backburner. It was no different this time, except my oldest son decided to change it up.

The Story

The boys were playing on the floor so I decided to catch up on some reading. As I opened the book and began reading a chapter, my son snuck up like a shark, grabbed the book, shut it and handed it back to me.

I thought it was funny and reopened it.

Immediately, he jumped off the floor and did the process again. Only this time, I looked in his eyes and saw him begging me to watch them. Suddenly, it dawned on me that in all my attempts to be efficient with my time, I slipped at the most important responsibility:

my relationship with my sons.

I wonder how many times we put more value on multitaslking and getting tasks accomplished rather than the important relationships surrounding us every day. We focus all of our time getting tasks checked off and juggling projects that are past due. We believe that we can multitask all this stuff and still have time for those around us.

but it never happens that way.

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  1. Darius Trunk says:
    March 4, 2007 at 1:39 pm

    Neat story. Funny how kids can do that kind of stuff. Do they really know what they are doing, or is it just a funny coincidence?

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