DAD MATH · 🕐
You work to give them everything.Let's count what's left.
Two minutes. Your shift, their schedule. You'll see your real hours with your kids this week, and how many are left before they're grown.
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Who's waiting for you at home?
Add each kid. A name or nickname makes the numbers hit home.
What does your work week look like?
Count the drive. Leave-the-house to walk-in-the-door.
And their day?
Roughly is fine. Use a typical school night.
Before you see it: take a guess.
How many hours a week do you think you get with them, awake and in the same house?
25hours
This week, awake and in the same house, you get
0hours
Your week, one square per hour
Rough estimates at this week's pace. Teen years usually shrink it further, since they get jobs, friends and cars.
You're not the only one doing this math. In Pew Research's survey, 63% of dads said they spend too little time with their kids, and most of them named work as the reason.
Source: Pew Research Center
Screenshot this. Send it to a dad who'd get it.
The hours aren't changing. What you do with them can.
I'm a dad who works long shifts too, so I built something for dads like us. It's called Win the Evening: every night you get 3 easy ideas, matched to your kids' ages. You just pick one. Version 1 is $19.
See Win the EveningIn the meantime, I'm sharing everything I'm testing on YouTube: @JesseCharlesHarrington