Jacqueline Elliott argues that quality moments with kids matter more than hours spent together. She recounts her daughter nearly drowning to show how brief, focused attention makes children feel valued, not distracted presence on your phone.
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Another. Another video that we get a lot that, like when my daughter almost drowned. Well, a lot of people. Yeah, well, I'm sure she almost drowned because you only spent 20 minutes. Well, back then, when that almost happened, I was a stay at home mom and I was watching her like 24 hours a day. 24 hours a day, and I was watching her and it was like a blind spot in the backyard when she. When my daughter fell into the pool. Things happen to people all the time, regardless of how much you. And I don't want it to go into that, but regardless how much time you spend with your kids or not, what I'm talking about is spending memorable time with your kids where you make them count, where you make them seem like the most in the whole entire world. Most of the time that people have hours with their kids, they're living other people's lives, scrolling through social media and just doing other things, but paying attention to their kids. They don't really know their kids. I can tell you with the amount of time, whether it's 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 10 minutes, or whatever is time that I have with my kids, I make them feel like they're the most important kids in the world, and that's what matters.