i you know actually in this modern day and age it seems like uh uh
we have more and more leisure time because uh we have so many uh convenience appliances and whatnot and
we don't even have to cook dinner anymore uh
yeah really
but i uh i've heard i don't know this for a fact but i've heard that a lot of families really don't spend a great deal of time together that kids the kids maybe on the average get
uh something like thirty seconds of quality time with the parents
that's what i've heard too uh
it seems bizarre to me i don't quite understand it although i think probably the the worst thing that's happening in the world at least the modern world today is television
yeah
not so much because uh it's bad per se
although there is some pretty crappy programming and i think there's also some uh i think
um
poorer lifestyles illustrated but simply because it dominates so much discussionary time
right
it's so darned easy to turn the thing on
i know it i've
i've found myself sometimes just sit down after work and
so i refuse to have one in the house yeah
oh really well good for you
good for you a lot of people i've talk to a lot of people about that and i've thought about it myself and
i thought about it a lot
um
but uh i still haven't done it yet well that's good
well i'll tell you television sure makes child rearing easy on you i mean the kids can be a real pest uh
and turning the TV on is almost like magic you know it's uh like
sticking uh an electrode into their pleasure center and you don't have to worry about them
that's true i've noticed that
but i don't think it's too good
i don't think so either
um so you know i don't know i take advantage i don't have a great deal of time to spend with the kids but i take advantage of
um dinner time we always eat together and
you know whenever you're with your kids you wanna interact with them rather than just ignore them
do you keep your kids uh active in sports or anything or
uh i guess our big outlet is music um our thirteen year old son plays violin and our nine year old daughter plays cello
oh okay
and uh when our son started playing violin i took up violin and when our daughter started playing cello i took up cello so there's plenty of
okay
plenty of interactive time in uh practicing although neither kid likes to practice
i guess that's not a big surprise
no not for kids
but i mean i imagine with infants you are
most of your time is sort of spent taking care of them rather than interacting with them
yeah
well i i i try and read to them and
although you
and i take them to the park and stuff and
oh you know reading is so good
yeah
i uh i took great pleasure in reading to my kids when they were little and i still try to read to them although our son is not liking that anymore
yeah well they get to this stage
uh but i read you know there's this Doctor Seuss sleep book have you ever seen that yet
sleep book no
yeah it's called a sleep book and uh you ought to get it
i tell you i read that book to my kids so many times i almost have the thing memorized
uh
we've got a quite a few of Doctor Seuss's books and
yeah well i think i think his sleep book is my favorite
oh really
um-hum
well
yeah i like to
i like to do it and they enjoy reading and i've actually i never read a lot growing up
and i never read until a few years ago i just started picking up books and
so it i've found that you know it's really important to me to get to read to i like to get away in a book you know
um-hum um-hum
and so i've put a lot more emphasis on that on my kids
um-hum
to try
so how much time do you think you spend with your kids on the average per each day
oh i probably spend an hour or two
oh that's great
my wife works at night so she does uh Tupperware so she's gone a lot at nights and so i spend a lot of time with them
oh i see
so how old are your kids again
they're two and one
two and one
um-hum
yeah so you have your hands full with them that's for sure
yeah
