Great post, as always. I left the corporate world and became a management professor for two reasons: to use my brain fully and so that I could be a great parent when we eventually had kids. You’ll have to ask my two teenagers whether I’m a great parent, but at least I’ve been able to put the quality and quantity time into the effort.

We eat breakfast (quietly) and dinner (very loudly) together most days. We watch most of the same t.v. and movies together (I draw the line at Dancing with the Stars; my son and I watch episodes of The Pacific while my daughter and wife watch the celebs trip the light fantastic).

Homework, chauffeuring them to golf tournaments and basketball games, you name it, we do a lot of it together. I say I basically work and raise my kids. Occasionally Karen and sneak in lunch dates or other couple time, but we know we’ll have a lot more of that all too soon when both kids are in college. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Aneil