How long do you think you spend each day in conversation with your kids?
Research shows that when asked most fathers guessed at between 15 and 20 minutes a day.
Subsequent surveys showed that busy men spent on average less than forty seconds a day with their children, split into three encounters of between 10 and 15 seconds each.
In another survey, fathers were spending 3 minutes a day talking with their children.
On the flip side, the kids were watching 3 hours of television each day.
For that reason alone The Sixty Minute Father is worth a read.
I came to read The Sixty Minute Father when I was given it by a friend of mine. Jon Dix. At the time I was working 14 hours a day most days. My two girls were around 2 and 4 years old and my partner was struggling with postnatal depression. Times were tough.
Without judgment. Jon gave me the book. No words just action. And in doing so he was living out one of the key values of the 60-minute father. Unconditional love. Without judgment.
Pass it on.