I was very proud of my husband the other night when he decided to turn off the ball game in order to focus on reading to my step-daughter. You should have seen the smile on her face when her dad clicked off the TV and said, “this is Ella time.”
As a busy, professional, working mother, I am sure you are a brilliant multi-tasker. We have been taught, and now believe, that we are more successful when we are doing multiple tasks at once. Honestly, we’ve gotten where we are because of our mutli-tasking abilities. However, it has occurred to me that a result of our need to be doing more then one thing at a time is a loss of depth and connection with ourselves and those around us.
Yes, I may be able to accomplish more faster if I am responding to a work email while discussing the weekend’s plans on the phone with my husband or talking to my mom on my cell phone while pushing my daughter on the swing, but what it is costing me?
